Professional Documents
Culture Documents
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TO DO LIST:
Identify a text/movie/music video in which
context it is developed (Intertext or
Hypertext);
Make an output about a certain topic using
Intertext and Hypertext; and
Write a 200-word critique of a certain
music video/movie on the basis of its
context.
CONTEXT OF TEXT
DEVELOPMENT
I. INTERTEXT
II. HYPERTEXT
Being a critical reader also involves
understanding that texts are always
developed with a certain context. A text is
neither written nor read in a vacuum;
its meaning and interpretation are affected
by a given set of circumstances.
Thus, CONTEXT is defined as the
social, cultural, political, historical, and
other related circumstances that surround
the text and from the terms from which it
can be better understood and evaluated.
In discovering a text's context, you may ask
questions like:
• When was the work written?
• What were the circumstances that
produced it?
• What issues deal with it?
INTERTEXTUALITY is the modeling of a text's
meaning by another text. It is defined as the
connections between language, images,
characters, themes, or subjects depending on their
similarities in language, genre or discourse.
This view recognizes that the text is always
influenced by previous texts.
A text contains many layers of accumulated, cultural,
historical, and social knowledge, which continually
adds to and affects one another.
See the lights, see the party, the ball gowns. 'Cause you were Romeo, I was a scarlet letter,
See you make your way through the crowd And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet."
And say, "Hello." But you were everything to me,
Little did I know... I was begging you, "Please don't go."
And I said...
That you were Romeo, you were throwing pebbles,
And my daddy said, "Stay away from Juliet." Romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone.
And I was crying on the staircase I'll be waiting; all that's left to do is run.
Begging you, "Please don't go." You'll be the prince and I'll be the princess.
And I said... It's a love story, baby, just say "Yes".