ENGL120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Sensemaking, Rhetorical Question, Pistole

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: English Literature
• Course: ENGL120
• Professor: all

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Textual analysis is our disciplined primary tool, that is, english literary studies" primary tool. Data collected in literature occurs through our primary analysis of a selected text. A primary text one separate reading, or analysis, or discussion (usually ction/sometimes non- ction) A secondary text used to support our arguments (e. g. journal articles, theorists, peer- reviewed) London: sage publications, 2003: we are constantly interpreting and analysing texts, text" has a particular meaning and connotation. When we refer to text, we don"t refer to the physical form or medium, but the content and informative message it contain: yet, texts have post-structuralist implications, especially when thinking about the production of meaning. Our poststructuralist world, different cultures and strata of society interpret texts in different ways. Meaning isn"t xed, it"s uid and variable. We make sense of reality through the lens of our culture our meaning of a text is inherently affected by the schema"s and discourses surrounding it.