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English Language and Literature
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Lindsay Tandy, Alice Gibbons and Joseph Koszary
Series editor: Carolyn P. Henly
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Non-literary text types
advertisement
brochure/leaflet
encyclopaedia entry
letter (formal & informal)
autobiography
cartoon
set of instructions
diary
The nature of
infographic
essay
magazine article
pastiche
parody
biography
speech
(adapted from the Language
photographs
travel writing
guide, 21–22)
types in this
well as non-literary text
range of literary works as
range of both
We will be exploring a wide
will also be studying a wide
the coursebook) and you
section (and throughout
in class.
language and literature texts
ACTIVITY 1
Here are six different
text types with
which you would
different purposes
expect to be the
. Order them from
most objective
subjective (personal
1 to 6 in terms
(neutral, unbiased
of
, biased, partial).
, impartial) to
to those at the
When you have
the most
end of the book.
ordered the texts,
compare your
responses
The nature of a text
a literary
between a text that is considered
to
fundamental differences
of a text remains the same:
Although there are some
text, the essential nature
way:
define a text in the following
work and one that is a non-literary
Chimombo and Roseberry
communicate with the reader.
■■ Table 1.1.2
resulting in a
what it is. Discourse is a process of a text. A text
First consider discourse and
e act itself takes the form
communicative act. The communicativ
words on a page; but a
consisting of written or printed
is commonly thought of as
or it may comprise only
language or spoken words,
the
text may also consist of sign
or a reader or listener, on
speaker, on the one hand
the thoughts of a writer, or
symbols, sounds, gestures,
a text may consist of other
information
other. In addition to words,
that is intended to communicate
or silences, in any combination
communicate, but
and attitudes. It may fail to
such as ideas, emotional states,
regarded as a text.
is clearly there, it must be
if the intention to communicate
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the non-litera
ry text
A non-literary
text is first and
foremost ‘non-ficti
and deals with
on’. Non-fiction
facts and informati
means it is an account
on
is about real-life
experiences. This that can be substantiated. It is
of the truth
based in the real
does not mean
encyclopaedia entry,
world and
all non-literary
a recipe from a
texts are objective
tyre are likely to
cookery book or
, though – an
be objective, whereas
a set of instructio
ns on how
speech are likely
an advertisement,
to be subjective
a newspaper editorial to change a bicycle
. A text’s purpose
subjective a text
or a politician
is what will usually
is.
denote how objective ’s
or
memoir
A: Language and Literature
writers and texts
Now that we understa
nd the nature of
non-literary text
a text we can start
and the nature
to distinguish between
of a
we also need to
the nature of a
be aware that there literary work. We have just seen
literature text.
what connects
are some fundame
all texts, but
ntal differences
between a language
and a
■■ Table 1.1.1
Section 1: Reade
rs,
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Section 1: Readers, writers
and texts
A note from Series editor Carolyn P. Henly
Text type
Purpose
Newspaper article
Restaurant review
Letter of application
to
university or for
a job
Propaganda poster
Set of safety regulation
s on
an aeroplane
Advice column
to report
to review
1 = extremel
y objective
6 = extremel
y subjective
to demonstra
te your interest
in and
suitability for
the course or
job
to persuade
to inform
in a magazine
to advise
attempts to
the plethora of ways a writer
have
will be closely exploring
In this section, then, we
discourse does not necessarily
You may have
We will be exploring how
neither
found this activity
or even language that uses
communicate with the reader.
problematic and
suggested at the
it could also be visual language
your
back
the page, the way a
to be written language, but
always make assumpti of the book. This is quite usual. answers may have differed from
As well as the marks on
exploit
more symbolic in nature.
the ones
Until we closely
ons about the objectivi
including how a writer may
words nor visuals, but is
why we need to
read a text, we
ty of the writer.
hold a magnifyi
cannot
or her text will also be explored, manipulate the shape of his or her
This, then, is one
ng glass up to a
writer has structured his
may
text has been put
of the reasons
text in order to
of a text’s words, how a writer
together and why.
language on the page to which
visual
deconstruct or
and
the sounds and rhythms
written
Being non-ficti
text’s
we live, texts have
unpick how the
to organize the
on and, therefore
the potential to
text and how they may decide
, about the real
It is important,
shape and change
world in
then, to understa
meaning,
public opinion
heighten the text’s meaning.
nd
personal views
about real-life issues.
written word to communicate
and to what degree to what degree we may be being
literary works rely on the
word to
sometimes a text’s
manipulated by
we are
Although the majority of
or instead of the written
a writer’s
purpose and meaning being given a more objective
to
use illustrations as well as
word
novels
written
graphic
the
as
texts.
as
such
viewpoin
well
But sometimes,
works
is obvious –- this
poem as
t. Of course
a text’s purpose
relies on the shape of the
users of at unpickin
and meaning may is what explicit means when
communicate, while poetry
in more detail. In contrast,
g a text to find
we study
as texts.
be hidden and
explores these literary works
we have
wide range of symbols such
In order to access this hidden meaning – this is
communicate. Chapter 1.3
what implicit means to work harder
the higher levels
meaning through an increasingly
of non- understa
explore this evolving form
social media communicate
in this course,
nding of a text’s
when we study
and Chapters 1.3 and 1.4
you will need to
Of course,
implicit meaning
be able to show
emojis, emoticons and hashtags
works and non-literary texts.
as well as explicit
an
construction of both literary
meaning.
traditional language in the
the written word to communicate
front
texts do not simply rely on
, newspaper articles, magazine
a wide range of non-literary
m, cartoon strips, advertisements photographic or other illustrative
meaning: photojournalis
on
Unlike non-litera
a few examples that rely
these
just
of
are
ry
some
texts,
explore
infographics
literary works are
covers and
1.6 in particular
invented by the
‘fiction’. Fiction
degree. Chapters 1.5 and
writer. Although
is something that
images to a lesser or greater
a literary work
events, the writer
is imaginary and
may be based on
changes aspects
personal experienc
stylistic choices writers employ.
of it to make it
usually (almost
e or real-life
fiction. Prose fiction
always) fiction
and while we do
of meter, rhyme
is always fiction,
not classify poetry
and stanzas make
drama
is
as fiction
it a symbolic rather
than a literal representor non-fiction, its form
ation of the truth.
The nature of
the literary work
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