Signs - Reading a Text

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Across
  1. 7. (purpose) what the sender wants an act of communication to ‘do’.
  2. 8. the meaning carried by an act of communication or text.
  3. 11. a communication route or connection.
  4. 13. the active interpreter of a message.
Down
  1. 1. what a text, group of texts, or indeed communication itself, ‘does’ (inform, persuade, entertain, socialise etc).
  2. 2. what signs do: the process of signifying.
  3. 3. to convert an encoded message into a form that can be understood.
  4. 4. That which stands for or represents an object, idea or mental concept.
  5. 5. anything which interferes with the processes of communication.
  6. 6. someone to whom a message is directed.
  7. 9. the originator of communication.
  8. 10. to convert a message into a means capable of being transmitted.
  9. 12. (and media) the method(s) we use to communicate.