Grouping texts

Grouping texts

1. GENRE- types of texts, e.g receipts

2. CONTEXT- what might have influenced the writing of a text and where it might be read or spoken

3. AUDIENCE- for whom the text was produced

4. PURPOSE- the reason why a text has been produced

5. FORMALITY- the language patterns and words a text uses and whether they are formal or informal

6. ACTUAL READER- any reader who actually engages with the text

7. IMPLIED READER- the kind of reader a text producer has in mind when writing and who might be expected to "follow" the author's point of view

8. IMPLIED WRITER- a constructed image of the writer a reader may have in mind

9. MULTI-PURPOSE- a text with more than one purpose

10. DUAL-PURPOSE- a text with two clear and defined purposes

11. PRIMARY PURPOSE- the main reason a text has been produced

12. SECONDARY PURPOSE- a secondary (and sometimes more subtle) reason

13. REGISTER- a variety of language appropriate to a particular propose and context

14. PRAGMATICS AND PHONOLOGY- • Layout • Text • Font • Colour • Images • Sounds/Emphasis • Intonation • Pitch • Tone

15. DISCOURSE- • Discourse – Looking at the whole text – Back channeling, Discourse markers, timed pauses, fillers, model expressions (must, ought to )

16. GRAMMAR - Sentence structure, elision, ellipsis,nomalisation, nelogisms. Stance types, pronouns,deixis, itntensifiers, word classes...

17. LEXIS AND SEMANTICS – semantic fields, connotations, collocations, denotations, polysyllabic, monosyllabic, formal, informal, shape of words, jargon, colloquial, terms of address…

18. PRAGMATICS- underlying message, ideology