General English: Key Terms

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Across
  1. 3. refers to those aspects of texts that prompt emotional and critical reactions; as such, the aesthetic is closely tied to reader/audience positioning; aesthetic features and stylistic devices may draw upon and interplay with textual features used for other purposes
  2. 6. choose and arrange subject matter, evidence, quotations and other textual information and combine them into a coherent whole text
  3. 9. aspects of texts (such as words, sentences, images), how they are arranged, and how they affect meaning; examples of stylistic devices include narrative viewpoint, approaches to characterisation, structure of stanzas, juxtaposition, nominalisation and lexical choice
  4. 12. the categories into which texts are grouped; the term has a complex history within literary and linguistic theory and is often used to distinguish texts on the basis of, e.g. their subject matter (detective fiction, romance fiction, science fiction, fantasy fiction) and form and structure (poetry, novels, short stories); genres are not static but change in response to a range of factors, such as social context, purpose and experimentation; some texts are hybridised or multigenic perspective: in English, the way a reader/viewer is positioned by a text, or how a particular ideology is embedded in a text, e.g. a feminist perspective; a point of view or way of regarding/thinking about situations, facts and texts
  5. 13. to develop a text logically and purposefully, e.g. to arrange information in paragraphs to ensure meaning is clear
  6. 14. opinions or ideas about an issue
  7. 16. the morphology and syntax structures used to create and express meaning in texts, by systematic arrangement of words, phrases, clauses and sentences to express meaning in texts for particular purposes
  8. 17. the context of a text, its historical and social setting
Down
  1. 1. decisions about the selection of vocabulary that is appropriate to particular purposes and contexts
  2. 2. a genre’s distinguishing structures, features and patterns that relate to context, purpose and audience
  3. 4. features of vocabulary, syntax and grammar that bind different parts of a text together; examples include connectives, ellipses, synonyms; in multimodal texts examples include establishing shots in films and icons for links on web pages
  4. 5. characteristics, qualities, philosophical and emotional stances, e.g. moral principles or standards, often shared with others in a cultural group
  5. 7. ideas, beliefs or attitudes about such things as gender, religion, ethnicity, youth, age, disability, sexuality, social class and work that are taken for granted as being part of the fabric of the social practices of a particular culture; cultural assumptions underpin texts and can be used to position audiences
  6. 8. textual constructions that give shape to ways of thinking about or acting in the world; texts re-present concepts, identities, times and places, underpinned by the cultural assumptions, attitudes, beliefs, values or world view of the writer, shaper, speaker/signer, designer (and of the reader, viewer, listener)
  7. 10. people or characters in texts who are representations of identities in (lived) cultural and social contexts
  8. 11. ideas or themes embedded in a text
  9. 15. convictions that people have based on opinion