What is context? – brainstorming
- A there
- Affect and determine the meaning in an indirect way
- Wilder perspective, bigger picture
- It is an overreaching there that determines the meaning and the value of the text in an indirect way
- Provides a better understanding
Different types of context:
- TIME: temporal context
- The context of production – when was it made
- The context of reception – when is it read
- PLACE: geographical context
- The context of production – where was it made
- The context of reception – where is it read
- POLITICAL context
- SOCIO context: society
- HISTORICAL context
- CULTURAL context: values and beliefs represented
- SITUATIONAL context
- PRODUCER context
- GENERATIONAL context: age
- SITUATIONAL context: the situation of creation/production affects the way how the audience receives the text -> effects the meaning -> fluid context
CRAPS:
- Context
- Reception
- Audience
- Purpose
- Style
What are the parts of someone’s personal context:
- Age
- Gender <- SOCIAL EXPECTATIONS: what it is to be a man/woman, what is the conventional male/female behaviour
- Where did you grow up?
- Where did you live?
- Where are you living now?
- Family background
- Religion
- Life experience
- Which social group(s) do you belong to?
- Education
- Nationality(s)
- Class -> socio-economic background
- Education
- Pop culture
- What is your mother tongue?
- Which languages do you speak?
- What are you interested in?
- What activities are you doing?