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13 Terms
Text type
What form the text is in - essay, letter, recipe, blog, inbox, speech, conversation, stand up comedy etc.
Cultural context
What is happening in society that has given rise to this text, what is culturally relevant at the minute
Audience/participants
Who the text is aimed at, who can read/hear it, who is participating in it
Socio linguistic variables
Audience/participants, social purpose, function, situational context, cultural context, domain, register, text type, mode
Social purpose
The aim that is trying to be achieved in a broader sense or how a person wants to be viewed socially. What a person wants to achieve by producing a text.
Register
How formal or informal a text is
Mode
Whether the text is spoken or written
Situational context
Where and when a text is produced
Context
The setting (time and place) or circumstances in which the message is communicated
Language Functions
The purpose of language; referential, emotive, conative, poetic, phatic, metalinguistic
Message
The message being communicated
Addresser
the person delivering the message
Addressee
The audience receiving the message
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