Glossary Flashcards
(19 cards)
Define an extensive range of texts
At least for texts
Define a complex text
Texts that typically are produced for adult audiences as distinct from texts written for adolescent audiences. These texts have complex structures or deal with complex information that a typical fifteen year old student would not normally be expected to understand.
Define a range of texts
Three texts
A small range of texts
At least two texts
Define assumptions
Understandings or ways of seeing the world that are taken for granted by particular individuals or social groups
Define attitudes
An outlook or specific feeling about something. Our values underlie out attitudes. Attitudes can be expressed by what we say, do and wear.
Define audience
Is one or more person(s) listening to, reading or viewing a text. The implied audience is the audience a writer or producer had in mind when the text was produces.
Definite auditory codes
In is scenario, the term is used specifically to categorise elements such as music, sound effects, and silence in films or dramatic performances.
Define Australian texts
In this scenario, the term refers to a written text written by an Australian. Viewing texts produces by a crew which is principally Australian or viewing texts dealing with Australian issue can be defines as Australian
Define beliefs
Something held to be a truth without the support of evidence that allows positive knowledge. Although the word is often used in tandem with ‘values’, beliefs are not the same as values. Our values underlie our beliefs. We sometimes use symbols to openly demonstrate our beliefs.
Define class
In this situations, the term is interpreted to refer to the social status of a person or group of people in socket. Social status may be decided by a combination of factors such as occupation, wealth, parenthood etc.
Define codes
In this scenario, the word is to be interpreted as a system of rules established within a text used to position the audience/reader to accept a particular meaning. When understanding of the use of a code become widespread, it becomes a conventions.
Define COMPIC
A library of clear and easily understood drawings, called pictographs, which convey information,
Define context
Context may refer to the environment in which the text was produces, the environment in which the text is set, or the environment in which the text is read. The environment may be social, political, historical,bphilosophical, or physical or a combination of these.
Define conventions
Generally accepted rules,usage or standard formats employes in structuring texts, which are evident Ina number of different texts. Conventions allow readers/viewers to make meaning of texts more readily if they have a knowledges of the conventions used in text. Conventions can be seen as codes that have become widely acknowledged.
Define critical awareness
The ability to make thoughtful and skilful judgements, which are distances from the reader’s own prejudices, about a text.
Define cultural contexs
The shared and competing, beliefs, values, attitudes, knowledge and practices which operate in a particular time and place.
Define demanding texts
Texts that we would expect an average 15 year old students would find very difficult to understand. The difficulty could arise from the vocabulary used, the structure or the content.
Define discourse
In this course the words is interred to focus on a set of assumptions that govern how we communicate our beliefs and values to others about specific topic.
