Task 2—questions
Reader, culture and text
1.
How could the text be read and interpreted differently by t w o different readers?
The f o l l o w i n g are examples o f texts that may be studied for student responses t o question 1.
The study and analysis o f possible readings of t h e final pages o f part 1 of t h e novel The Outsider b y a •
French and Algerian reader at the time of t h e Algerian war o f independence
The study and analysis o f possible readings of an extract f r o m t h e screenplay^f/.a Grandalllusion
by a
French public in the early 1930s and late 1930s
T h e s t u d y and analysis o f a political speech by a w o r l d leader t h a t excludes references t o c e r t a i n
groups or issues (those excluded will read t h e speech differently)
The study and analysis o f different views o f an article on obesity (this article may be.viewed differently
b y someone from a c o u n t r y w i t h problems of p o v e r t y and famine and by s o m e o n e f r o m a w e a l t h y
consumer society)
2.
If t h e t e x t had been w r i t t e n in a different t i m e or place or language or f o r a different audience, h o w
and w h y might it differ?
The f o l l o w i n g are examples o f texts that may be studied for student responses t o question 2.
An article from a newspaper and how it w o u l d be w r i t t e n in a different newspaper
A comic book or graphic novel for teenagers in t h e 1950s rewritten f o r teenagers in the 21st c e n t u r y
T h e s t u d y and analysis o f a literary w o r k on t h e t h e m e o f p r e j u d i c e t h a t h i g h l i g h t s d i f f e r e n t
assumptions about race, religion/and so on
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The study and analysis o f an article about social class f r o m a country t h a t has a very hierarchical class
structure (the significance o f language t h a t identifies class distinctions is o f primary focus)
Power and privilege
1.
How and why is a social group represented in a particular way?
The following are examples o f texts that may be studied f o r student responses t o question 1.
The study and analysis o f an article in which an urban tribe is represented in a negative way
The representation o f social groups in t h e novel The Yacoubian Building by Alaa al Aswany
2.
Which social groups are marginalized, excluded or silenced within t h e text?
The f o l l o w i n g are examples o f texts that may be studied f o r student responses t o question 2.
Chinese fiction in w h i c h t h e figure of the intellectual is either revered or condemned
Representations of t h e Roma in the contemporary popular press
Text and genre
1.
How does t h e t e x t c o n f o r m t o , or deviate f r o m , t h e conventions of a particular genre, and f o r w h a t
purpose?
The following are examples o f texts that may be studied f o r student responses t o question 1.
The study and analysis o f an author's reworking o f fairy tales
The study and analysis o f a novel that uses dramatic dialogue, poetry, letters, accounts of journeys
The study and analysis o f media texts w i t h a particular format, style and register
2.
How has t h e text b o r r o w e d f r o m other texts, and w i t h w h a t effects?
The following are examples o f t e x t s that may be studied f o r student responses t o question 2.
The study and analysis o f h o w a particular character f r o m a w o r k o f f i c t i o n is re-imagined in a song
lyric
The study and analysis o f religious imagery and references in political speeches
The study and analysis o f one of the stories f r o m Borges's Ficciones
The study and analysis o f t h e use of the courtly love tradition in Romeo and Juliet