1. CONTEXT
Welcome to our revision tutorial
Dreamt, written, inspired, created
and eventually presented by Jacquie
and Sara
2.
3. “The environment in which the text was produced, the
environment in which the text is set, or the environment in
which the text is read. The environment may be social,
political, historical, philosophical or physical or a
combination of these”.
4.
5. Personal
Reception How a person’s age, race,
How the audience receives the gender, class, intertextual
text at different time periods connections etc. influence
i.e. time of production and their reading of a text.
society today
Sociocultural context (the
culture that an individual
Production was educated and or lives
The events that were occurring in, and the people and
in society during the time the institutions with whom they
text was produced. interact).
Author
The important events
Historical surrounding an author that
The political, social, cultural have helped to shape the
and economic setting of a decisions that are made in a
text. text.
6. Affects:
• Extent to which the writer and reader connect
on an issue. This determines whether the
reader makes an intended or resistant
reading.
• The decisions authors make within their text
• Readers construction of meaning
8. PERSONAL CONTEXT
THE ABORIGINES ACT 1905
12. The minister may cause any Aborigines to be
removed to and kept within boundaries or a
reserve, or to be removed from one reserve or
district to another reserve or district and kept
therein…
37. A protector may cause any Aborigines or half-
casts who are camped… within or near the limits
of any town or municipal district to remove their
camp.
9. PRODUCTION AND AUTHOR CONTEXT
Always consider these points
• When was it produced?
• What was going on in society?
• What were the circumstances that might have
had an impact on the writer/producer?
• What is the background of the
writer/producer?
10. • Evaluate texts for appropriateness to context,
understanding how contextual power
relationships are reflected
• Show understanding of the role of
sociocultural context in the production and
reception of texts
• Understand the influence of situational, social
and economic contexts on production and
reception of constructions of identity
12. How else do
we make
meaning?
Codes and
conventions
To what extent is the consideration of
context important in determining the
meanings you make from a text.
Asks for your
personal
opinion/voice
Make reference to
specific examples
from a text using
codes and
conventions
13. PERSONAL
(Context and meaning PRODUCTION
varies with your
-Tween phase emerged
background)
from social media and
-Boarders marketing
-Australians - Sex-based marketing
-Female -Feminism- expectation
that girls and boys can
-Intertextual
connections such as
CONTEXT do the same thing
girl magazines
-Not exposed to
CAMD
girlie-girl culture
AUTHOR
- Mother- uses her own -“Writing about girls, -Desire to be an
observations and thinking about girls, informed and nurturing
reactions to her talking about girls and mother as an anchor for
daughters predilections how girls should be the persuasive qualities
with pink raised” of the text
14. • Read the newspaper
• Watch the news
• Read Fast Food Nation and read up on the
Mabo land rights
• Engage with interesting people
• Do additional research
• Make a timeline of the text you are studying
15. • Context is everything that surrounds a text and
makes the text meaningful
• Without it, English and the rest of the world around
us really would make no sense!
• Context is an umbrella term
• It applies to every text you will ever be exposed to
and therefore can appear in any section of the
exam
• Form opinions, and expose yourself to other texts
and interesting people
