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38 Cards in this Set
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Audience |
The receivers or intended receivers of a text |
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Genre |
The way of categorising and classifying different types of texts. |
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Literariness |
How much a peice of text qualifies as literature. |
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Mode |
Way in which language is communicated between text and receiver. |
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Narrative |
A type of text or discourse that tells a series of events. |
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Point of view |
The way in which events and experiences are seen. |
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Positioning |
How a producer orientates themselves to the subjects. |
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Purpose |
The intention behind the text. |
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Register |
A variety of language that is associated with a particular situation of use. |
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Representation |
How experiences, views and ideas are represented to readers. |
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Accommodation |
The ways that individuals adjust their speech patterns to match others. |
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Phonoaesthetics |
The use of sounds to create pleasant or unpleasant effects on reader. |
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Sound iconicity |
the use of sounds to mirror form or meaning. |
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Prosodic features |
ways of indicating intonation, pitch and volume. |
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Denotative |
Literal dictionary meaning |
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Figurative language |
language used in a non literal way in order to describe something in another's terms |
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semantic fields |
groups of words connected by a shared meaning |
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hypernyms |
words whose meanings contain other words |
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hyponyms |
words that can be put into a larger category |
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idiolect |
way of speaking associated with one speaker |
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neology |
forming new words |
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pragmatic meaning |
a words meaning being different to the situation in which it is used. |
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Grice's Maxims |
quality, quantity, manner and relevance. |
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Implicature |
An implied meaning that has to be inferred. |
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inference |
the understanding of implied meaning. |
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deixis |
words thatbare context bound. |
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morpheme |
smallest grammatical unit |
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affix |
A morpheme that combines with a root morpheme to create a new word |
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clause |
group of words centred around a verb |
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active voice |
a clause where the doer is the subject. |
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passive voice |
A clause where the person affected by the action is the subject. |
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word class |
grammarical category into which words can be placed. |
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discourse markers |
words or phrases that help us organise what we say or write. e.g.. "as I was saying.." |
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privileged positions |
beginnings and endings |
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anaphoric reference |
referencing something previously described in the text |
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Cataphori reference |
referencing something yet unidentified. |
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exophoric reference |
referencing something beyond the language of a text itself |
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interdiscursivity |
the use of discourses from one field as part of another. |
