Study Set Content:
Text is examined focusing on its content to
explore linguistic, social, cultural, affective and
historical significance of the message.
Content Analysis
Other Possible Uses of Content Analysis:
a. Determining international differences in
communication content
b. Recognizing the presence of propaganda
c. Identifying intentions with focus on
communication trends of an individual, group,
or institution
d. Describing attitudinal and behavioral
responses to communication
e. Determining psychological or emotional state
of persons or groups
The environment, which includes when the text
is produced, where it originated, and how or
why the communication existed, is an
important aspect in the analysis of the
message.
Context Analysis
The analysis of the background or surrounding
circumstances of the text
Context Analysis
Gathering information about the text helps
understand the influence of socio-cultural or
even historical factors in communication.
Context Analysis
Analyzing literary text includes the study of
structure and style of selection.
Context Analysis
It is concerned with the examination of
grammar, lexis, semantics, phonological
properties and discursive devices which is also
known as the stylistic properties of literary arts.
Context Analysis
in literature examines oral and written
text in order to determine crucial characteristic
of linguistic properties, structures, and patterns
influencing perception or interpretation of the
texts
Stylistics
Functions of Analysis of Literary Texts
Interpersonal Function
Ideational Function
Textual Function
Reference of the sentences which makes
the text cohesive and coherent.
Textual Function
Serves the purpose of studying the
discursive devices such as ellipsis,
repetition, anaphora
Textual function
All about the relationship that the text is
establishing with its recipients, the use of
either personal or impersonal tone, speech
acts, and the mood of the statement are
analyzed
Interpersonal Function
Concerned with the means of representing
the reality by the text, the way the
characters are represented together with
the arrangement or organization of
information and meaning the text is
conveying.
Ideational function
Focuses on the effectiveness of the
stylistic properties of the texts to determine
their suitability to the perceived meaning
and contribution to overall interpretation
Textual function
Guides to Text Analysis of Literary Arts:
1. Analyze the rhetorical context
2. Examine the textual features
3. Place the text in a new context
Studies the external factors or
circumstances surrounding the writing
situation which includes the purpose,
audience, and focus
1. Analyze the rhetorical context
- Includes the distinctive formal aspects of
utterance, text, or art work in any medium
2. Examine the textual features
Helps identify how the text relate to other
texts and how might another writer or even
use the text.
3. Place the text in a new context
Includes the contextuality and
intertextuality of literary readings.
3. Place the text in a new context
Identify the writer / persona in the text
Analyze the rhetorical context
