L4: Context and Text's Meaning

• Context

  • the background, the background information that surrounds the text itself. This also involves the following:
  • Environment Setting
  • Surrounding of events
  • Occurrences
• UNDERSTANDING THE TEXT >> CONTEXT

  1. GETTING OUT OF THE TEXT
  2. DEEPER UNDERSTANDING
  3. APPRECIATION OF THE TEXT
• Purposes of identifying contexts:

  1. A way to enable readers to understand the narrative or literary piece more.
  2. Necessary in writing to provide information, new concepts and words to develop thoughts.
• FOUR TYPES OF LITERARY CONTEXT

  1. Writer's Context
  2. Reader's Context
  3. Text's Context
  4. Social Context and Socio-cultural
• Writer's Context

  • This involves knowing about the writer's life, values, assumptions, gender, race, sexual orientation, and the political and economic issues related to the author.
• Writer's Context

  1. Who is the author/writer?
  2. What is his/her educational background?
  3. What are his/her personal information?
  4. How do these affect and influence the text?
• Reader's Context

  • This involves the reader's previous reading experience, values, and assumptions, political and economic issues.
• Reader's Context

  1. What are your prior experiences related to the text?
  2. What is your impression of the text?
• Text's Context

  • This involves work's publishing history. It is part of the larger text such as newspaper, history, events, translated in it.
• Text's Context

  1. Where was the text published?
  2. What year was it published?
  3. What publishing company printed the text?
• Social Context and Socio-cultural

  • This feature the society in which the characters live and in which the author's text was produced.
• Social Context and Socio-cultural

  1. What kind of society emerged during the time when the literature was created?
  2. What type of government or significant historical event happened during its publication?