English Language A-Level
Non-specialist audiences
What Non-specialist audiences means in English Language A-Level, as defined for AQA.
Definition of Non-specialist audiences
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General readers or listeners addressed by material such as newspaper articles, blogs, radio phone-in transcripts or campaign leaflets.
Topics that use Non-specialist audiences
- Language discourses (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Attitudes to language diversity and change
- Construction of authorial identity and stance
- Language discourses
- Language discourses and ideological debate
- Reader positioning and persuasion
- Representation of language and language users
- Analysis of stance and positioning
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