Terminology - Context and Audience Flashcards Preview

A-Level English Language and Literature > Terminology - Context and Audience > Flashcards

Flashcards in Terminology - Context and Audience Deck (28)
Loading flashcards...
1
Q

What is affordance?

A

A feature of a text which allows it to reach a certain audience or audiences

2
Q

What is asynchronous communication?

A

Communication where production and reception happen non-simultaneously

3
Q

What is blended-mode?

A

A text which contains conventional elements of both speech and writing

4
Q

What is a constraint?

A

A feature of text which limits the way in which audiences can consume it

5
Q

What is context?

A

The external factors that shape how texts are produced and received

6
Q

What is discourse community?

A

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

7
Q

What is a discourse event?

A

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

8
Q

What is downgrading?

A

When a speaker responds to disagreement by becoming less intense about their opinion

9
Q

What is endophoric storytelling?

A

When a story is produced in the same location as where it took place

10
Q

What is exophoric storytelling?

A

When a story is produced outside the location where it took place

11
Q

What is gap-filling?

A

The act of adding a rich sense of meaning to individual words and phrases based on our own knowledge and the context in which they appear

12
Q

What is a genre?

A

A way of grouping texts based on expected shared conventions

13
Q

What is an implied reader?

A

A constructed image of an idealised reader

14
Q

What is intertextuality?

A

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

15
Q

What is a knowledge frame/pragmatic knowledge?

A

A mental store of knowledge about the world gained through experience

16
Q

What is a mode?

A

The physical channel of communication: either speech or writing

17
Q

What is a multi-purpose text?

A

A text that clearly has more than one purpose

18
Q

What is othering?

A

Presenting a culture or community as different or strange in some way

19
Q

What is primary purpose?

A

The main and most easily recognisable purpose of a text

20
Q

What is a register?

A

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

In particular, refers to how formal or informal a text or producers language is

21
Q

What is representation?

A

The portrayal of events, people and circumstances through language and other meaning-making resources (e.g. images and sound) to create a way of seeing the world

22
Q

What is secondary purpose?

A

An additional and perhaps more suitable purpose of a text

23
Q

What is situation of use?

A

A specific place, time and context in which communication takes place

24
Q

What is subjectivity?

A

Being seen from a particular perspective

25
Q

What is synchronous communication?

A

Communication where production and reception happen simultaneously

26
Q

What is a text producer?

A

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

27
Q

What is a text receiver?

A

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

28
Q

What is upgrading?

A

When a speaker responds to disagreement by becoming more intense about their opinion