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Saturday, June 23, 2012

Language in Cultural Context

List of items that you need to analyze a text:
Theme: An idea that recurs in or pervades a work of art or literature.

Topic: Reflects the overall idea of the text.

Main Idea: Reflects the specific idea of the text.

Source: Where it comes from.

Target Audience: Readers for this text.

Author's Purpose: 
-Inform: When an author gives facts or true information.
-Persuade: When an author writes to try to get you to do something.
-Entertain: When an author writes stories that are fiction.

Genre: A category of artistic, musical, or literary composition characterized by a particular style, form, or content.
-Fiction Genres: Drama, Poetry, Fantasy, Humor, Fable, Science Fiction, etc
-Non-Fiction Genres: Essays, Biography, Speech, Autobiography.

Tone: The attitude of the writer.


Register: The way the text is written, Formal, or Informal.


Jargon: It is the vocabulary peculiar to a particular profession or group.

Argot: It is a specialized vocabulary peculiar to a class or group., especially one devised for private communication.




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