English Language A-Level
Construction of authorial identity and stance
What Construction of authorial identity and stance means in English Language A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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How the producer builds an identity through tone, register, claimed expertise, personal anecdote or institutional voice, and how that identity supports the argument.
Topics that use Construction of authorial identity and stance
- Language discourses (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Attitudes to language diversity and change
- Language discourses
- Language discourses and ideological debate
- Non-specialist audiences
- Reader positioning and persuasion
- Representation of language and language users
- Analysis of stance and positioning
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