Basics- Key Terms Flashcards
What is Context?
Information that gives detail and aids understanding.
What is Mode?
It identifies whether something is written, spoken, or both.
What is Genre?
What form it is, such as a letter, an article etc.
What is the Audience?
Who recieves the text, who it s aimed at.
What is the purpose?
Why something is made.
Where should MRGCAP be used?
It should be used as the introduction in essays for texts.
What are meanings?
Meanings are messages that are communicated. They are never fixed and are negotiated between a text producer and reciever.
What is a representation?
The description or portrayal of someone or somethinig in a particular way.
What is Phonology?
The conceptual study of sounds (meanings)
What is Phonetics?
The actual sound and how they are made.
How many phonological sounds are there in the English Language?
44
What are phonemes?
Basic units of sound, which are constructed and make a word.
What is Prosodics?
Features of sound, but not individual sound, eg speed pitch etc.
What is Paralanguage?
Refers to things like voice quality and vocal effects eg laughing, eye contact. Physical features of sound.
What is Alliteration?
Where two or more consecutive words start with the same letter.
What is Assonance?
The repetition of vowels in words.
What is Consonance?
The repetition of consonants.
What letters are Plosives?
b,p,t,d,k,g
What makes plosives sound the way they are and what can you infer from the use of them?
No air flow, it is blocked. They are harsh, strong sounds.
What letters are fricatives?
f,v,s,c,sh
What makes fricatives sound the way they do and what can you infer from the use of them?
They allow air flow, are much softer sounds.
What letters are affricatives?
ch,jd (judge)
What makes affricatives sound the way they do and what can you infer from the use of them?
They sound sharp edged, usually attention grabbing and emphasised.
What letters are Nasals?
m,n,ng