Glossary
Word | Definition |
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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