GUIDE FOR AN ARTICLE PRESENTATION

ARTICLE PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS

a- Students will introduce and discuss an article.
b- Students will discuss the main ideas of the article. They will be expected to link the ideas
properly and avoid repetition of connecting words.
c- Students should go into the text applying DISCOURSE ANALYSIS:
Students should identify and expound the following items:

● paratextual elements (author, source, illustrations, ads, comments, etc.)

● addresser/addressee

The Seven Standards of Textuality:

● Intentionality and acceptability - A text must be intended to be a text and accepted as such in order
to be utilized in communicative interaction, i.e. the author of the text should intend it to contribute
towards some goal and the reader of it should accept that it is, in fact, satisfying some such objective.
● Informativity - the extent to which a presentation is new or unexpected for the receivers
● Situationality- a general designation for the factors which render a text relevant to a current or
recoverable situation of occurrence … The accessible evidence in the situation is fed into the model
along with our prior knowledge and expectations about how the ‘real world’ is organized. Situationality
is the location of a text in a discrete sociocultural context in a real time and place.
● Intertextuality- the relationship between a certain text and other texts which share characteristics with
it; the factors which allow readers to distinguish, in a new text, features of other texts that they have
experienced. In other words, intertextuality subsumes the ways in which the production and reception
of a given text depends upon the participants’ knowledge of other texts.
● Cohesion- it has the function of attaching, syntactically and lexically, the text together in order to
create textual unity. It is a function of syntax in communication that imposes organizational patterns
upon the surface text (the presented configuration of words). Cohesive devices: anaphoric
reference – cataphoric reference – exophoric reference- ellipsis- substitutions- junctions-
lexical fields- parallelism.
● Coherence- it includes the layout and ordering of the concepts and relations of the text
which are caught on by the surface text (transitional words/expressions – logical order
– paragraphing – content- assumptions)
d- Students will be asked follow-up questions relating the points discussed and their personal
opinion or experience.

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The 7 standards of textuality have been proposed in order to answer a number of questions:

1) How do the clauses hold together? ______ COHESION

2) How do the propositions hold together? ________COHERENCE

3) Why did the addresser produce this? _________INTENTIONALITY

4) How does the addressee take it? ____________ACCEPTABILITY

5) What does it tell us? ____________INFORMATIVITY

6) What is the text for? ____________SITUATIONALITY

7) What other texts does this one resemble? ___________INTERTEXTUALITY