Glossary
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| affordance | what a body, thing or a medium is capable of doing |
| agency | action or intervention producing a particular effect |
| codes | a system that represents something |
| composing | composing refers to the ct of constructing/creating texts in any mode or medium |
| conventions | a pattern of words and paragraphs typical of certain types of texts |
| intertextuality | relationships between texts, where one text may explicilty or impicitly refer to another text, so enahncing our undertanding of both |
| pastiche | a text that is a collage of many other texts or that imitates a particular style |
| responding | in texts this refers to the ways that readers/viewers and listeners react to texts; it can include spoken, written or visual responses |
| trope | figurative language or rhetorical device that recurs because of its cultural significance |
Last update: 9th January 2019