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  2. Context (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    In semiotics, linguistics, sociology and anthropology, context refers to those objects or entities which surround a focal event, in these disciplines typically a communicative event, of some kind. Context is "a frame that surrounds the event and provides resources for its appropriate interpretation". [1]: 2–3 It is thus a relative concept ...

  3. Discourse analysis - Wikipedia

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    Discourse analysis (DA), or discourse studies, is an approach to the analysis of written, spoken, or sign language, including any significant semiotic event.. The objects of discourse analysis (discourse, writing, conversation, communicative event) are variously defined in terms of coherent sequences of sentences, propositions, speech, or turns-at-talk.

  4. Linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Stylistic analysis can also include the study of language in canonical works of literature, popular fiction, news, advertisements, and other forms of communication in popular culture as well. It is usually seen as a variation in communication that changes from speaker to speaker and community to community.

  5. Jakobson's functions of language - Wikipedia

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    Roman Jakobson defined six functions of language (or communication functions), according to which an effective act of verbal communication can be described. [2] Each of the functions has an associated factor. For this work, Jakobson was influenced by Karl Bühler 's organon model, to which he added the poetic, phatic and metalingual functions.

  6. Stylistics - Wikipedia

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    Linguistics. Stylistics, a branch of applied linguistics, is the study and interpretation of texts of all types, but particularly literary texts, and/or spoken language in regard to their linguistic and tonal style, where style is the particular variety of language used by different individuals and/or in different situations or settings. For ...

  7. Tenor (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    Tenor (linguistics) In systemic functional linguistics, the term tenor refers to the participants in a discourse, their relationships to each other, and their purposes. In examining how context affects language use, linguists refer to the context-specific variety of language as a register. The three aspects of the context are known as field ...

  8. Text linguistics - Wikipedia

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    Text linguistics is a branch of linguistics that deals with texts as communication systems.Its original aims lay in uncovering and describing text grammars.The application of text linguistics has, however, evolved from this approach to a point in which text is viewed in much broader terms that go beyond a mere extension of traditional grammar towards an entire text.

  9. Reception theory - Wikipedia

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    Reception theory is a version of reader response literary theory that emphasizes each particular reader's reception or interpretation in making meaning from a literary text. Reception theory is generally referred to as audience reception in the analysis of communications models. In literary studies, reception theory originated from the work of ...