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What is the Implied Reader?

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Who the text is meant to be read by or who the author’s intended reader is

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What is the Actual Reader

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The person who actually reads the text

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Who is the implied writer

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The “authorial character” that a reader produces from reading the text. The readers image of the writer

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Who is the Actual Writer

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The person who actually produces the text

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What is a Discourse Community

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A group of people with similar interest who are likely to respond to a text in similar ways

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Define mode.

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Refers to written or spoken words. Includes word choice, delivery and organisation

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What is the oppositional view

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The oppositional view states that the characteristics and qualities of spoken and written mode are strictly opposites

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What are 5 features of written Mode

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Objective
Monologue 
Durable
Planned
Highly Structured 
Grammatically Complex
Concerned with the past or future
Formal
Decontextualised
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What are 5 features of Spoken mode

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Interpersonal
Dialogue
Lasts for a short time (Ephemeral)
Spontaneous 
Loosely Structured
Grammatically simple
Concerned with the present
Informal
Contextualised
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What are blended modes

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where both aspects of speech and writing can be found in a mode, for example tweets and social media because it can have comments creating a discourse

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What is Register

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A variety of Language that is associated with a particular situation of use

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What are situational Characteristics

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A key Characteristic of the time, place and contexts in which communication takes place

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What is Genre

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Different texts fall into different Genres. Different genres have typical characteristics from which we can derive meanings and representations from

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What is intertextuality

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A process by which texts borrow from or refer to conventions of other texts for a specific purpose or effect

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What is the primary purpose

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The main and most easily recognisable purpose

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What is the secondary purpose

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An additional or perhaps more subtle purpose

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What is a multi purpose text

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A text that clearly has more than one purpose

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What is lexis

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The term in language studies used to refer to vocabulary

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What is a proper noun

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A noun which refers to names of people or places

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What is an abstract noun

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A noun which refers to states, feelings and concepts

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What is a concrete noun

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A noun which refers to objects that have a physical existence

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What is a material verb

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A verb showing actions or events

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What is a relational verb

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A verb identifying properties or showing states of being

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What is a mental verb

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a verb showing internal processes such as thinking

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What is a verbal verb
A verb showing external processes like speech
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What is a base adjective
The basic form on an adjective
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What is a comparative adjective
A form of adjective used to compare two instances either adding “-er” or using “more”
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What is a superlative adjective
A form used to compare more than two instances, identifying a best example
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What are personal pronouns
refer to people and are differentiated in terms of person (1st,2nd,3rd)
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what are Demonstrative Pronouns
Used when orienting the reader towards something
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What are indefinite pronouns
pronouns referring to a person, object or idea that is non specific
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What are articles
A form of determiner. Show that something is definite or indefinite
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What are possessives
A type of determiner which shows ownership
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What are Quantifiers
A type of determiner showing either specific or non specific quantities of a noun
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What are co-ordinating conjunctions
link structures together such as phrases and clauses when they’re equal to each other
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What are sub-ordinating conjunctions
link clauses together to show one is dependant on the other
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What are semantics
the study of meaning in language
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what is a semantic field
a group of words that fulfil the same kind of role in speech or function (player, field have a semantic field of sports)
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what are collocates
words that typically appear together
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what is a fixed expression
collocates which have been used so much together that words become accepted and used as one long structure
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what is a synonym
a word that has equivalent meaning to another word
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what is a euphemism
a more socially acceptable word or phrase
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what is a dysphemism
using a blunt or direct word instead of a more polite or indirect alternative, close to taboo
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what is an antonym
words that have opposite meanings
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what is a hyponymy
the way of viewing the relationship between more general and specific words
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metaphor
a structure that presents one thing in terms of another
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what is morphology
the study of word formation
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what is syntax
the study of how words form larger structures such as phrases, clauses and sentences
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what is a root
a morpheme which can stand on its own and can usually form a word (e.g. apple)
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what is a suffix
a morpheme coming after a root word to modify its meaning
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what is a prefix
a morpheme coming before a root changing the meaning
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what is an affix
a prefix or suffix
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what is an internal function
when an affix shows a grammatical category such as a verb phrase or plural noun
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what is a derivational function
the way an affix helps to form a new word by attaching itself to a root
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what is a head word
the main word in the phrase
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what is a pre modifier
a word that goes before a head word to add detail or clarify
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what is a qualifier
an additional word of phrase that adds further detail to a noun
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what is a post modifier
a word coming after the head noun to add detail or clarify some aspect of it
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what is a primary auxiliary verb
a verb which joins with a main verb to show tense
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what is a modal auxiliary verb
an auxiliary verb which joins with a main verb to show degree of commitment (e.g. should, must, might)

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