Context and Text's meaning Flashcards
Background or settings. Circumstances that surround a given text and help specify its meaning
Context
Knowing the life, values, assumptions, gender, race, sexual orientation, and the political and economic issues related to the author
The writer’s context
Knowing the previous reading experience, values, assumptions, political and economic issues
The reader’s context
Publishing history, through larger text such as newspaper, history, events, translated in it
Text’s context
What are the 4 contextual reading approaches?
Biographical, Sociocultural, Linguistic Context, and Critical Reading Strategies
Refers to the background of the author that affects the work
Biographical Context
Social, economic, political, and cultural forces affecting the literary work
Sociocultural context
Social propaganda, stands against oppression
Marxism
Roles of women in the society
Feminism
Perspective of the third gender
Queer theory
Deals with history
Historicism
Changes in the attitude of the post colonies
Post Colonialism
When the literary was written, how history happened
New historicism
Use of words, sentence pattern
Linguistic context