GCAP

Question 0

What does the ‘C’ stand for in ‘GCAP’?

Answer 0

Context.

Question 1

What does the ‘G’ stand for in ‘GCAP’?

Answer 1

Genre.

Question 2

What does the ‘A’ stand for in ‘GCAP’?

Answer 2

Audience.

Question 3

What does the ‘P’ stand for in ‘GCAP’?

Answer 3

Purpose.

Question 4

What combined reflect the ‘register’ of a discourse?

Answer 4

The three elements which reflect the discourse are:

• lexis
• grammar
• phonology.

Question 5

Why is ‘context’ important?

Answer 5

It can change the impact, the effect and a product’s overall purpose.
Especially in ‘gender and language’.

Question 6

What do you discuss when talking about the purpose of a product?

Answer 6

It's primary and secondary purpose.
Is it to:
- persuade
- inform
- describe
- entertain
- instruct
- advise
- review
- argue
- support
- advertise.

Question 7

When talking about the audience what are the things to consider?

Answer 7

• age
• gender
• stereotypes
• sociolect.

Question 8

What is meant by ‘genre’?

Answer 8

What mode is the product:

• pamphlet
• (a) speech
• article (does it feature in a specialised magazine?)
• letter (to whom was it sent?)
• poem
• script (what genre, ‘science-fiction’, ‘horror’, ‘action’ etc.?)

Question 9

What is ‘sociolect’?

Answer 9

Sociolect is the language of social groups.

• social-economic status
• education
• age
• gender
• occupation
• belief system
• culture.