21st-Linguistic-Context.pdf

Linguistic Context Linguistic context Linguistic context is a discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps determine its interpretation. It revolves around the idea that literary texts can be read through the context of the language used to write the text as well as the way languag...

Linguistic Context Linguistic context Linguistic context is a discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps determine its interpretation. It revolves around the idea that literary texts can be read through the context of the language used to write the text as well as the way language was used in the text. Here are some strategies you may use to read a text through the linguistic context. 1. Analyze the diction or choice of words in the text. 2. Examine the text’s syntax or use of sentences, clauses, phrases, line cuts. 3. Observe the use of figurative language 4. Analyze the mood and tone of the text. 5. Observe the text’s overall structure. 6. Analyze the content of the text.  The following are literary approaches that focus on language. These approaches may lead you in your view of reading through linguistic context. 1. Structuralism. 1. Structuralism. It relays the texts being examined to a larger structure. The structure may be a particular genre, a range of intertextual connections, a model of a universal narrative structure, or a system of recurrent patterns or motifs. 2. Formalism (New Criticism). 2. Formalism (New Criticism). This is a school of literary criticism and literary theory that focuses on the structure of a particular text. It examines a text without considering any outside influence. 3. Post-structuralism. 3. Post-structuralism. This is the reaction to structuralism. In the linguistic context, there may be underlying structures that may have different interpretations based on how the words or phrases were used in the text.  Direction: Read and understand carefully the statements in every item and then choose the letter of your choice. Use a separate sheet of paper for your answers.  1. What is a text’s context? A. Only the historical events and ideas that surround an author and help shape his or her writing. B. Only the beliefs, education, culture, and experiences of the author. C. Only the reader’s own experiences, culture, education, and beliefs. D. The situation in which it is written and read.  3. What is a text’s biographical context? A. The events and ideas that surround an author and help shape his or her writing. B. The text’s vocabulary, sentence structures, and literary forms C. The reader’s own experiences, culture, education and beliefs D. The beliefs, education, culture, and experiences of the author  4. What literary context places a particular literary work within the context of the author’s life? A. Socio-cultural Context B. Linguistic Context C. Reader Context D. Biographical Context  5. What perspective under sociocultural context examines oppression, social conflicts, and solution to these struggles as shown in the literary work? A. Historicism B. Marxism C. New Historicism D. Post-colonialism  6. What literary perspective looks into the changes in attitude of the post colonies after the colonial period? A. Feminism B. New Historicism C. Post-colonialism D. Queer Theory  7. What literary context can you find by analyzing the literary text grammar, syntax, or phonemic pattern? A. Biographical B. Linguistic C. Reader response D. Socio-cultural  8. What perspective relays the texts being examined to a large structure? A. Formalism B. New Criticism C. Poststructuralism D. Structuralism 9. A perspective dealing with the history that influenced the writing of literature.  10. What perspective serves as the reaction to structuralism? A. Formalism B. New Criticism C. Post-structuralism D. Structuralism