English langauge Categorising texts

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  • Created on: 14-05-13 13:19
Idiolect
How a variety of factors form your personnal langauge. Discourse community, gender, parents, religion, friendship groups, where you live, eduaction, occupation...
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Sociolect
A defined use of language as a result of memebership of a scoial group.
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Dialect
Language variety of geographical region. Variation in vocab & grammar. NOT ACCENT (pronunciation used in region).
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Register
Closely relates to context and purpose. distant/unequal = more formal. close/equal = less formal. Register depends on: field, tenor & mode.
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Field
general purpose of communication.
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Tenor
relationship between producer/receiver.
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Mode
Medium of communication: speech, written or mixed.
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Multimodality
Texts that combine: words, images, sound and semiotics to produce meaning.
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Mode- Speech features
Spontaneous, loose structure, simple grammar, concerned about present and informal.
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Mode- Written features
Planned, highly structured, complex grammar, concerned with past & present and formal.
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Purpose
Text's use in given context (function) inform, persuade, instruct/advice and entertain.
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Context
When and how it's likely to be read and factors that influence it.
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Context of reception
Situation text is read/heard and factors that influence readre's interpretation.
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Context of production
How factors influence the writer of the text.
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Actual reader
Reader that engages with the text.
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Implied reader
Who the author has in mind when writing the text.
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Implied writer
The readers constructed image they have in mind when reading the text.
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A defined use of language as a result of memebership of a scoial group.

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Sociolect

Card 3

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Language variety of geographical region. Variation in vocab & grammar. NOT ACCENT (pronunciation used in region).

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Card 4

Front

Closely relates to context and purpose. distant/unequal = more formal. close/equal = less formal. Register depends on: field, tenor & mode.

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Card 5

Front

general purpose of communication.

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