Lesson 1 Context of Text Development
Lesson 1 Context of Text Development
Context of
Text
Development
APRIL JOY A. AGUAS
Lesson
Objectives
Print reading
Which is better
to read?
Print reading?
Digital reading?
Digital reading
These are examples of e-reading resources, whether we like it or not
with the rapidly changing times brought by technological
breakthrough, our reading materials have not only changed, even
the way we READ MATERIALS.
There is always an inspiration behind
the writing of a text, and often, it
leaves clues about the situation or
the reality that served as the
backdrop of the text. This backdrop,
this situation, this reality is known as
the context of the text
What is a Context?
is defined as the social, cultural,
political, historical and other related
circumstances that surround the text
and form the terms from which it can
be better understood and evaluated
through hypertext and intertext.
What is a Context?
In writing, context refers to
information that helps readers
accurately interpret the meaning
of a text.
Knowledge of the text’s
context helps in appreciating
the text’s message more
deeply.
In discovering a reading
context, you may ask
questions like:
• When was the work written?
• What were the
circumstances that
produced it?
• What issues does it deal
with?
In the conventional or traditional reading,
we read linear text…
3
segments of a text, easily jumping
from one part to another depending
on what aspect of the text interests
him/her.
ACTIVITY!
You are doing a research about
Environmental Issues in the
Philippines. A quick Google search
would lead you to a Wikipedia
article. While reading about it, you
also encounter links that lead you
to more information depending on
your purpose and interest.
ACTIVITY!
INTERTEXT
is putting a text in relation to another
text, usually through direct quotes or
references. A book that quotes
another book to compare, contrast,
or expand on a point is using
intertext.
INTERTEXT
• defines as comparing the meaning of a
text by another text.
• It deals with the influences between
language, images, characters, themes
or subjects depending on their
similarities in language, genre or
discourse.
“Bella Swan is drafted in to interview the
reclusive enigmatic Edward Cullen,
multi-millionaire CEO of his company.
It’s an encounter that will change her life
irrevocably, leading her to dark realms of
desire.”
INTERTEXTUALITY
It is the interconnection between similar or
related works of literature in terms of
language, images, characters, themes, or
subjects depending on their similarities in
language, genre, or discourse, that reflects
and influences an audience’s interpretation of
the text.
INTERTEXTUALITY
• This is evident when you read one text and
you reference another, or when you adopt
and changes a prior text.
• This sight emphasizes that the text is always
influenced by previous texts and in turn
anticipates future texts.
EXAMPLES