Ch 2 Text producers and receivers

Question 1

Discourse event

Answer 1

An act of communication occurring in a specific time and location involving writers/speakers and readers/listeners

Question 2

Text producer

Answer 2

The person or people responsible (through writing or speaking) for creating text

Question 3

Text receiver

Answer 3

The person or people interpreting (through reading or listening to) a text

Question 4

Multi-purpose text

Answer 4

A text that clearly has more then one purpose

Question 5

Primary purpose

Answer 5

The main and most easily recognisable purpose

Question 6

Secondary purpose

Answer 6

An additional and perhaps more subtle purpose

Question 7

Implied reader

Answer 7

A constructed image of an idealised reader

Question 8

Actual reader

Answer 8

A person or groups of people who engage with and interpret a text

Question 9

Implied writer

Answer 9

A constructed image of an idealised writer

Question 10

Actual writer

Answer 10

The ‘real’ person or people responsible for text production

Question 11

Discourse community

Answer 11

A group of people with shared interests and belief systems who are likely to respond to texts in similar ways