💯 Understanding Text, Context and Medium | Critical Thinking | Essential English Skills
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Understanding Text, Context and Medium
Text and Context is the relationship between a text and the world around it. In other words, it is about how a text fits into the culture and has ideas relating to both the time of writing and contemporary reading. The medium also affects how a story is constructed and interpreted.
Why Context?
Studying context involves analysing the relationship a text has with the world.
No text can be fully understood when isolated from the world around it. Nor can a text be interpreted consistently and universally.
Text and context in the syllabus require you to interpret and analyse what informs a ‘reading’, as well as how interpretation is considered differently according to a number of factors.
Context and Text
The context of a text involves researching the time period of when the text was composed.
By understanding the culture of the period, it is easier to critique and analyse the work relative to the period of time when the text was written.
Through this, it is possible to identify, discuss or evaluate how a text changes in meaning over a time period.
Contemporary Context
Looking at a contemporary context requires you to argue and discuss the value of a text to modern society. By comparing and contrasting themes and ideas to current social and cultural paradigms, you are deciphering how a text retains value over time. Look for themes which are universal or persistent.
Between Texts
Studying text and context also requires an ability to draw links between other works and their context. In other words, how does a story from one time and place different from a similar story written at a different period, in a different place, by a different person?
Response to Context-Related Questions
When responding to a context related question – you are attempting to state how meaning of the text is shaped by the combination of the text and context. Such as:
How a text is relevant to modern society
How a text is shaped by the time it was composed
How ideas reflect the human experience.
The relationship between texts of different eras
The relationship of texts between different authors
The relationship of texts between different mediums.
Medium
Medium relates to studying the link between text forms (e.g. film and prose) Depending on the text you are studying, this may require a distinction between various forms of the same text.
Most of your analysis will focus on construction – and the way a text designed for one form is appropriated into another.