The candidate is helped by the teacher as he asks probing questions to allow the candidate to expand more on her analysis and thoughts on the two texts which the candidate grabs the opportunity to give more information. She has the opportunity to explain further points that she had earlier mentioned. She also makes clarifications of her claims by giving examples and evidences.
. It is important to note that all of the analysis are based and connected to the global issue of the portrayal of female promiscuity, in the above extracts and text.
Thus the candidate presents the Global Issue through the extracts by the use of stylistic features, style and techniques employed by the authors.

 

5.      What words or phrases demonstrate the ideological perspective of this text?

·         How are we affected by texts in various ways?

·         In what ways is meaning constructed, negotiated, expressed and interpreted?

·         How does language use vary among text types, and among literary forms and genres?

·         How does the structure or style of a text affect meaning?

·         How do texts offer insights and challenges?

 

 

 

a.       I guess on good response to the reason for the study of language and literature will be for the simple but yet insightful fact that it helps us to understand and know how language in itself is constructed. Words carry more meaning than meets the eye. The study of language and literature gives us the opportunity to dive into the use of different words and its possible diverse meanings. Literature in turn enables us to relate to times where we were not. One may say that that it is an extension of history seeing that it takes us back to time and reveal the occurrences and how things were done before now.

 

b.      Meanings are expressed through various ways: words, sounds, images

 

c.       Meaning is expressed through the use of rhetorical features that seek to show the authors feelings towards a topic. The author transmits his thoughts and feelings, and the reader is expected to understand them.

 

d.      Language use vary in texts due to their purposes. The questions to ask in relation to this is if a particular text type is to persuade, narrate, demonstrate, instruct, or describe. Depending on the purpose the appropriate diction is chosen.

 

e.       Structure and style generates meaning in such a way that is unique. Writers’ different styles to communicate their feelings. And readers perceive aright. The use of for example bold letters or different font sizes catches readers’ attention and makes him drawn to the text. Structure and style brings ‘beauty’ to the reading of any text.

 

f.       Texts offer insights and challenges through different ways including their forms and themes. Readers are drawn into the text and are able to know the various contexts within which a text is written readers get to know prevailing issues during a particular time, their culture and perspectives; if these are different from that of the readers, it provides a whole new ‘life’ by the insight it gives.