Context

Question 1

Define Context.

Answer 1

Context: where, when + how a text is produced or received.

Question 2

State what the Acronym GAPMMR stands for.

Answer 2

Genre
Audience
Purpose (primary + secondary)
Mode
Manner
Register

Question 3

Define Genre.

Answer 3

The kind of text you have in front of you (e.g. advert, speech, song)

Question 4

Define Audience.

Answer 4

• Person or people reading/hearing the text.
• Who is the text aimed at?
• Does the text have one or multiple audiences?

Question 5

Define Mode

Answer 5

• Text can be in spoken mode
• Or written mode
• Or mixed mode (written + spoken, e.g. a political speech which will be written but delivered as a speech)
• Or multimodal (spoken/written + uses pictures)

Question 6

Define Manner.

Answer 6

Used to express how formal/informal a text is.
- Texts can be distant or close/intimate.

Question 7

Define Register.

Answer 7

• Type of variety of language that the writer/speaker has chosen to use (e.g. formal or informal)

Question 8

Define Field.

Answer 8

• Words used in a text which relate to the text’s subject matter.
• Texts for audiences with a particular specialist knowledge will have words from that field (e.g. the field of medicine)

Question 9

Define Lexical Field.

Answer 9

• Identifies the main subject matter of a text (e.g. food in a recipe, money in an article on economics)