Paris Anthology Toolkit

Question 1

Purpose

Answer 1

Why the text was written

Question 2

Primary Purpose

Answer 2

Main and most easily recognisable purpose

Question 3

Secondary Purpose

Answer 3

An additional , perhaps more subtle purpose

Question 4

Multi-purpose Text

Answer 4

A text that clearly has more than one purpose

Question 5

Mode

Answer 5

The physical channel of communication (e.g. speech or writing)

Question 6

Blended Mode

Answer 6

A text containing elements of speech and writing

Question 7

Audience

Answer 7

The complex issue of who the text is for

Question 8

Implied Reader

Answer 8

A constructed image of an idealised reader

Question 9

Actual Reader

Answer 9

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

Question 10

Text Receiver

Answer 10

The person or people who interpret a written or spoken text through reading or listening to it

Question 11

Transactional

Answer 11

exchanges where the speaker is getting something done (e.g asking for directions)

Question 12

Referential

Answer 12

providing information (e.g telling someone the times and dates of a meeting)

Question 13

Phatic

Answer 13

small talk (e.g talking about the weather or asking how someone is in a telephone conversation)

Question 14

Interactional

Answer 14

main purpose is social. This has links with phatic conversations e.g talking about a shared night out

Question 15

Expository

Answer 15

Think of expose-to explain something clearly

Question 16

Performative

Answer 16

Carrying out the purpose of the talk- e.g an introduction