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 a 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 than 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

any 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