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What is a Text? Redefining Traditional Notions

What is a Text? Redefining Traditional Notions. IB: Language & Literature A L. Sandford. As mentioned, the reason why this course exists is because the IB and Ontario Curriculum now recognizes that a text is not just words on a page. What Is A Text?. So…. with that…. Take a guess….

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What is a Text? Redefining Traditional Notions

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  1. What is a Text?Redefining Traditional Notions IB: Language & Literature A L. Sandford

  2. As mentioned, the reason why this course exists is because the IB and Ontario Curriculum now recognizes that a text is not just words on a page. What Is A Text? So… with that… Take a guess…

  3. Is this ad a text?

  4. Is this brochure a text?

  5. A tattoo?

  6. A novel?

  7. Is this face a text?

  8. What is a text? A text is essentially… • anything that functions as part of a communicative act. • anything that can be interpreted.

  9. What is a Communicative Act? • any process that demands an engagement between two or more parties involving reception, interpretation and response. • For example, one person speaking to another can be a communicative act as can a novel which waits on a shelf for a reader’s response.

  10. What is a text continued… • The term “text types” simply refers to the almost limitless range of texts that can be part of a communicative act, such as advertisements, movies, novels, textbooks, newspapers, blogs, etc. • Text types can include the many different types of writing as well as photographs or even dramatic performances.

  11. IB “Text” Definition • Anything from which information can be extracted, and includes the widest range of oral, written and visual materials present in society. • This range will include single and multiple images with or without text, literary and non-literary written texts and extracts, media texts (for example, films), radio and television programs and their scripts, and electronic texts that share aspects of a number of these areas (for example video-sharing websites, web pages, SMS messages, blogs, wikis and tweets). Oral texts will include readings, speeches, broadcasts and transcriptions of recorded conversation.

  12. Let’s start with something simple… Is this a text? How do you know? What can you infer from this?

  13. Figures (people) : Are there people in the picture? What do they look like? What are they wearing? What are their facial expressions like? Body language ? Colour: What kinds of colours are used? How do they make you feel? Layout : What is the design like? Is it simple? Is there a lot of empty space? Where is the author’s name and title placed? Words : Are there any words on the cover? What do they say? What do they suggest the book could be about? Visual Analysis Lettering & Font : What impressions does the font size &style leave you with? Tone & Mood : Overall, how does the cover make you feel? Serious? Creeped out? Joyful? How does the lighting affect your impression? Symbols : Are there any objects or signs in the picture that could represent something? Location : Where do you think the setting is? What could this tell us about the book?

  14. Let’s try something else…

  15. What could the artist be juxtaposing here?

  16. What could the artist be juxtaposing here?

  17. What could the artist be juxtaposing here?

  18. What is the effect of the ambiguity here?

  19. Pun Symbolism Juxtaposition Connotation Denotation Ambiguity

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