Roadways to reading glossary

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<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">affordance</td>
<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">what a body, thing or a medium is capable of doing</td>
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<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">agency</td>
<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">action or intervention producing a particular effect</td>
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<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">codes</td>
<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a system that represents something</td>
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<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">composing</td>
<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">composing refers to the ct of constructing/creating texts in any mode or medium</td>
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<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">conventions</td>
<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a pattern of words and paragraphs typical of certain types of texts</td>
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<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">intertextuality</td>
<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">relationships between texts, where one text may explicilty or impicitly refer to another text, so enahncing our undertanding of both</td>
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<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">pastiche</td>
<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">a text that is a collage of many other texts or that imitates a particular style</td>
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<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">responding</td>
<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">in texts this refers to the ways that readers/viewers and listeners react to texts; it can include spoken, written or visual responses</td>
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<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">trope</td>
<td class="text-left" style="background-color: rgb(230, 231, 232); border-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">figurative language or rhetorical device that recurs because of its cultural significance</td>
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