context
message
sender.......................................................................receiver
contact
code
The functions of a communications act:
referential (Tom is in the hallway now)
poetic (formal) (Tom is a pig)
emotive (expressive).............................................conative
(affective) (Please help me) (Get in here!)
phatic (yes, yes, yes)
metalingual (What do you mean it's too hot?)
A literary text as a communicative act:
context
text
writer...............................................................reader
contact (medium or delivery system)
code
Various forms of critical theory privilege one or more of the elements of the communicative act. The following is a general indication of emphasis.
Writer: Hermeneutics, Biographical criticism, Psychoanalytic criticism, Phenomenological criticism.
Reader: Reception theory, Reader response criticism.
Context: Marxism, Sociological criticism.
Text: New Criticism, some forms of Deconstruction
Contact: Editorial exegesis
Code: Structuralism, Formalism, Semiotics, Linguistics, Deconstruction.