Terms and Methodology

Literature

Six reasons people read and write literature

Discourse

Overlapping systems of written, spoken, and other forms of communication dictating how reality is perceived and acted upon

ex. laws in justice system

Stereotype

Modes of fictional discourse

Affordances / constraints

what a particular medium makes possible communicatively and what it limits communicatively

close third person narrative point of view

rhetoric

attempt at communication to persuade or influence

rhetorical situation

circumstance in which you communicate

ex. signed up for a lecture so you have to talk to teacher to learn

Intended audience

recipients a creator has in mind when making a literary work (also imaginary or invoked)

addressed audience

the recipients who consumes a literary work (also real or actual)

genre

category or type of writing