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Unit 1: Perspectives in English
Quick questions on Audience, reception and reading positions (QCE English Unit 1)
8short Q&A pairs drawn directly from our worked dot-point answer. For full context and worked exam questions, read the parent dot-point page.
What is intended audience?Show answer
The audience the writer or publisher had in mind. Inferred from genre, vocabulary, references, assumed knowledge.
What is actual audience?Show answer
Anyone who reads the text. Can include readers far removed from the intended audience by time, culture, age or political position.
What is dominant?Show answer
Reader accepts the text's intended meaning. Reads "with the grain".
What is negotiated?Show answer
Reader accepts the broad framework but contests particular elements. Mixed acceptance.
What is resistant?Show answer
Reader rejects the text's preferred meaning, often by exposing its ideological assumptions.
What is treating resistant readings as misreadings?Show answer
All three positions are legitimate critical postures.
What is confusing the implied reader with the actual reader?Show answer
Different categories.
What is forgetting that audience analysis requires textual evidence?Show answer
Like all analysis, claims about audience need quoted support.