English Language A-Level
Context, audience and purpose
What Context, audience and purpose means in English Language A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Linking graphological features to the text's producer, audience and purpose, such as how a charity leaflet creates an urgent yet approachable impression.
Topics that use Context, audience and purpose
Related terms
- Context
- Context and inferred meaning
- Cooperative principle and implicature
- Discourse
- Genre
- Grammar as a meaning-making resource
- Graphology
- Integration of graphology with other language levels
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