TEXT ANALYSIS

CRISTINA PEÑA
YOHENIS DIAZ

UNIVERSITY OF CORDOBA
FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND HUMAN SCIENCES
BACHELOR OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES WITH EMPHASIS IN ENGLISH
CLASSROOM EDUCATION
MONTERÍA - CÓRDOBA
2022
 FIELD-TENOR-MODE TEXTUAL ANALYSIS

John knew his wife’s operation would be expensive. There was

always Uncle Harry. John reached for the telephone book.

FIELD

Process Context: Jhnon's office because he had a telephone book next to him or
instantly.

Characters:

1. John 2. John's wife 3. Uncle Harry

General Idea:

In this mini text, we can find a man named John who is very concerned about a
process or handling something difficult in which his wife is, this alleged operation may
refer to a lien or mortgage that his wife is going through due to mismanagement in the
administration of a residential complex, and now he is trapped in this problem and
does not know how to get out and solve his wife's life, and the only thing this man
thinks about is calling his uncle Harry, who is the one they have economic solvency in
the family.

TENOR

Personalities and relationships:

John's wife: She is a woman who does not know how to manage her finances and for
this reason, she got carried away by greed and made several loans to be able to buy
more shares, and continue doing business but all this went wrong, because she did
business with people unscrupulous women who only scammed her, and now she is in
debt and needs her husband to stand up for her and ask to borrow money, where he
also has no way to pay it later.
John: he is a kind man, who lives on his minimum wage and keeps doing what his wife
tells him because he is also a submissive man. In his family circle, there is only one
family that lives with excellent comfort and it is the family of his uncle Harry who is an
entrepreneur, and they have a detergent factory, which helps him to solve his needs
and whims.

Uncle Harry: in addition to being rich and having many comforts and a luxurious life
full of trips, cruises, and good food, it does not mean that he is not a humble and
simple man, he always gets out of trouble, helps his nephew John because his father
was an excellent brother for him and when John's father died he left Harry in charge of
finishing educating and always helping John. For this reason, this character called
Harry is very supportive.

Participant:

John: always looking for solutions to his wife's infinite problems, working hard from
his office where every day he has to deal with many people with guardianships, and
petition rights because he is a lawyer's assistant.

Jhon's wife: she works managing a residential complex, quite valued, in addition to
being aware of the car fee that I take through loans, the bank is currently charging her
and not only that, in addition to other embezzlements that she has committed as
administrator of that residential complex.

John's uncle: A supportive man who with a lot of effort is where he is thanks to his
constant and hard work, he has a detergent factory which is successful.

MODE

Structure Organization: this is a written text.

The Author’s Intention: is to put the reader's imagination to work and make critical
deductions.
Deductive Structure: it happens that the main idea is at the beginning and is shown
once bluntly. Although the author must finalize and take deductions because that is
the intention.