Redefining Traditional Notions IB Language amp 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 ID: 487111
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What is a Text?Redefining Traditional Notions
IB: Language & Literature A
L.
SandfordSlide2
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.
So…
with that…
What Is A Text?
Take a guess…Slide3
Is this ad a text?Slide4
Is this brochure a text?Slide5
A tattoo?Slide6
A novel?Slide7
Is this face a text?Slide8
What is a text?
A
text
is essentially…anything that functions as part of a communicative act.
anything that can be interpreted. Slide9
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.Slide10
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. Slide11
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.Slide12
Let’s start with something simple…
Is this a text?
How do you know?
What can you infer from this?Slide13
Visual Analysis
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?
Colour
:What kinds of colours are used? How do they make you feel
?
Words :
Are there any words on the cover? What do they say? What do they suggest the book could be about
?
Location :
Where do you think the setting is? What could this tell us about the book
?
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?
Figures (people
) :
Are there people in the picture? What do they look like? What are they wearing? What are their facial
expressions like?
B
ody
language
?
Lettering &
Font :
What impressions does the font size &
style leave you with
?Slide14
Let’s try something else…Slide15
What could the artist be juxtaposing here?Slide16
What could the artist be juxtaposing here?Slide17
What could the artist be juxtaposing here?Slide18
What is the effect of the ambiguity here?Slide19
Pun
Symbolism
Juxtaposition
Connotation
Denotation
Ambiguity