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• Context of situation


  • Field
  • Tenor
  • Mode
• Field


  Concerns the kind of action taking place and its social nature
• Tenor


  Interactive Roles involved in text (Ex. Comparison of Two Shops)
• Mode


  Function of Language in the org of the text (Ex. Question of the customer that is being answered)
• Context of Culture


  • Actual context of situation
  • Configuration of field, tenor, & mode; brought text into being
  • People do these occasions & attach these meanings to them; this is what culture is
• Context of text Development


  • Hypertext
  • Intertext
• Hypertext


  • Characterized by the eternal links
  • Organizes info links w/in its text
• Intertext


  • Connection between text
  • Shaped by referencing
• Types of Intertext


  • Allusion
  • Pastiche
  • Parody
• Allusion


  • You are just using that situation to make a reference
  • Referencing to a popular character that has been established by a pre-existing text (Ex. Chocolate cake is my Achilles Hill)
• Pastiche


  • Can be seen as a form of praise and respect for another author
  • Imitation (Ex. Two movies, Same Context)
• Parody


  • It gives a humorous effect
  • Mimics the original text to achieve a mocking