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English Language Terminiology - Coggle Diagram
English Language Terminiology
Discourse Events
An act of communication, occurring in a specific time and location, involving readers, writers, speakers and listeners, who use language to express and understand their ideas and meanings.
Ideal Writer
Idealised version of the writer.
Purpose
Intention of the text.
Actual Reader
The people who read the text.
Actual Writer
The person who actually writes the text.
Primary Audience
Text receivers intended to see the discourse event. Clear audience.
Formality
How formal the text is.
Implied Reader
The person the text producer ideally wants to receive the text.
Context
Who? What? Where? When? Why? The topic surrounding the text.
Representation
Represent opinions, discourses, the producer, etc.
Text
Any form of written words.
Secondary Audience
Text receivers not intended to receive the discourse event.
Discourse Community
A group of people with shared interests and belief systems who are likely to respond to texts in similar ways.
Text Receiver
Receives the text of a discourse event.
Text Producer
Writes/creates the text in a discourse event.
Multi Audience
Text receivers of multiple audiences. Broad audience.
Contraction
Shortened words eg. don't, can't.
Social Networks
Links between social groups.
Shared Knowledge
Rules of a discourse event or rules everyone knows. Knowledge of the discourse event/context.
Utterances
A line of spontaneous speech.
Transcript
Capturing spoken language, written in the moment.
Intertextuality
A process where texts borrow or refer to conventions of other texts for a specific purpose or impact.
Profanity
Swear words.
Multi Modal
Using both written and spoken language. The middle of the spectrum, eg. social media.
Idiolect
Your own personal language.
Mode
Spoken and written language. A spectrum that goes from spontaneous speech to thought through writing.
Dialogue
More than one person speaking.
Sociolect
Language belonging to a specific group, eg. a friendship group, age group.
Syntax
Order of words.
Manners
Outward behaviour towards others.
Monologue
One person speaking, normally about their thoughts or feelings.
Imperative
Command.
Interrogative
Question.
Dialect
The words used in a specific geographical location or region, eg. Newcastle.
Politeness
A behaviour that is respectful and considerate of others.