Mode
Mode- the way something is written (pictures, speech, written)
Multimodality- texts that have more than one type of mode (e.g webpage)
Paralinguistics- everything in spoken apart from words (e.g laughter, gestures, tone, volume, speed)
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Writing
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Speaking
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Monologue
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Dialogue
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Planned
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Spontaneous
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Durable
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Ephemeral
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Grammatically complex
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Grammatically simple
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Formal
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Informal
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Objective
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Interpersonal
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Decontextualised
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Contextualised
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Interpersonal- influenced by who you're talking to
Register of text- formality of text
Good notes - don't forget that this oppositional view of writing and speaking doesn't take into account that almost all texts are somewhere on the coninuum between these two characterisations of the different modes. It might be worth noting some examples in the comments for when you come back to this.
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