Grice’s Maxims
Grice’s Maxims, otherwise known as the Cooperative Principle, is a set of expectations that we have in spoken conversation.
Array A-level
Text
In literary theory, a text is anything that we can use to communicate information, messages, stories, ideas and feelings. It can be consumed, analysed, interpreted and understood by us and other people.
Text Receiver
The text receiver is the person (or people) who reads, watches or listens to the text. They rely on the cues and devices in the text to help them interpret it.
Feature Spotting
Feature spotting is a BAD thing to do in your essays. It’s when you pick out the devices or terminology that you can find in a text without analysing what the text producer is doing.
Assessment Objective [AO]
An assessment objective (shortened to AO) is a skill that examiners will be assessing you for in your exams.
Contraction
A contraction is a type of abbreviation that skips letters in a word or phrase to create a single, shorter word. It will usually use an apostrophe to show that letters are missing.
Abbreviation
An abbreviation is a shorter version of a word or phrase.
Text Producer
A text producer is the person (or people) who creates the text. They use the tools at their disposal to make something that other people can interpret and derive meaning from.