Study Set Content:
refers to books, essays, discussions,newspapers articls, historical documents, speeches, advertisements, correspondence, conventions or conference readings, literary selections, or any other events of communicative language.
Text
An evaluative study of this comunicative occurence is called
content analysis
To do this, text is coded and broken down into categories on a variety of levels such as words, phrases, sentences,or themes.
Content Analysis
Content analysis may either be
Conceptual or relational
is a direct study of communication through text or transcripts, it focuses on the aspect of social interaction as it provides insight into complex modes of human thoughts and language use. However,its limitation is on its disregard of the context that produced the text as well as the state of things after the text is produced.
Content Analysis
The analysis of the background or surrounding circumstances of the text is known as
contextual analysis
The analysis of literary texts serves the following functions:
Interpersonal function
Ideational function
Textual function
is 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
is the reference of the sentences which makes the text cohesive and coherent. It serves the purpose of studying the discursive devises such an ellipsis, repetition, anaphora. Likewise, it focuses on the effectiveness of the stylistic properties of the
Textual function
is concerned with the means of representing the reality by the text, the way the characters are represented together with the arrangement or organization of the information and meaning the text is conveying.
Ideational function
The following can serve as a guide to text analysis of literary arts:
Analyze the rhetorical context.
Examine the textual features
Place the text in a new context.
This helps identify how the text relate to other texts and how might another writer or even you use the text.This includes the contextuality and intertextuality of literary readings.
Place the text in a new context.
_._This includes the distinctive formal aspects of utterance, text, or art work in any medium
Examine the textual features
This studies the external factors or circumstances surrounding the writing situation which includes the purpose, audience, and focus.
Analyze the rhetorical context.
