EXPLORING TEXTS REFLECTING

DIFFERENT CULTURES
LEARN ABOUT IT💡

A “text” isn’t limited to something written down. A text can be a film, an artifact,
anything in a language and culture that conveys meaning. Think about the text that you
use in your language classroom: what’s in the textbook? What do you read in class or
even at home? How do you describe the classroom, its design? Why do you think the
chairs are placed facing the tables? Those questions, with its finite answer would tell
you that there are texts that are reflection of one’s own culture.
Categorization of Text

1.Created Texts

Texts authored by non-native speakers to achieve pre-determined curricular goals.

2. Semi Authentic Text

Texts created by native and /or non-native soeaker,based on original language materials but adopted to fit
curricular need.

3. Aunthentic Text

Created by native speakers for native speakers for consumtion in a native environment.
CULTURAL TEXT

A message that is extensively distributed throughout society is referred to as a cultural text.

Examples of cultural texts include movies, television programs, commercials, and other forms of mass
communication. It is a word that, in most cases, refers to both the content and the form of the communications
being sent.
HOW TO EVALUATE MESSAGES AND IMAGES OF DIFFERENT TYPES OF
TEXTS REFLECTING DIFFERENT CULTURE?

The following should be observed

• Understand how the specificied cultures live

• How the people in the specified group communicate each other

• Learn to symbolism of their culture

• Beware in every detail such as artifact, language, and symbolism.

Formal and Informal Language

What is the difference between formal and informal language?

Formal and informal language serve different purposes in written communications depending on the
reader (Audience) and reason for writing (Purpose). The tone, the choice of words and the way the words
are put together vary between the two different styles.

Formal language is less personal than informal language. It is used when writing for professional or
academic purposes like graduate school assignments. Formal language does not use colloquialisms,
contractions or first-person pronouns such as “I” or “We.”

Informal language is more casual and spontaneous. It is used when communicating with friends or family
either in writing or in conversation. It is used when writing personal emails, text messages and in some
business correspondence. The tone of informal language is more personal than formal language.
CONTRACTIONS
A shortened version of the spoken and written forms, syllable or word group.

PHRASAL VERBS
Combination of verb and adverb or preposition, which have a particular meaning.

SLANG/COLLOQUIALISMS
To describes the meaning and to try to understand the colloquial words.

FIRST-PERSON PRONOUNS
Words that refer to the speaker or writer, and they are used to describe the subject or actor in a sentence.
First- Persons uses(I,me,my,mine,we,us, and our).
CONTRACTIONS
FORMAL
• Do you not believe we should go to the
beach tomorrow?
• I am not going to do that.
• She is going to the store.
INFORMAL
• Don’t you think we should go to the
beach tomorrow?
• I’m not going to do that.
• She’s going to the store.
 PHRASAL VERBS

FORMAL INFORMAL
• The ballon was blown up for the
• The ballon was inflated for the
experiment
experiment
• He broke up with her
• They ended their relationship
relationship
• I am prepared to proceed. • I’m ready to roll

• We will start anew. • We are going to start over.

SLANG/COLLOQUIALISMS
FORMAL
• He was heavily intoxicated
• It was raining very heavily
• That was a complete failure
• That is an easy task
INFORMAL
• He was totally wasted
• It was raining cats and dogs
• That was a total disaster
• That’s a piece of cake
 FIRST-PERSON PRONOUNS

FORMAL INFORMAL
My friends and I were just spending time • Me and my friends were just hanging
together out.

• The task must be completed by Friday.
• Various research methods were
considered for the study
• We’re going to need to get this done by
Friday
• I considered various researchmethods
for the study
SYNTHESIS

METONYMY is an extension of the idea of a metaphor in semiotics,where metonymy covers diverse

set of strategies of association and meaning transfer between different designs with a metaphor one
word stands in for another word “love is a battlefield” or apple of my eye.

SEMIOTICS is the study of making meaning the connection between a sign or symbol.What it
comes to represent and how it is understood by different people. How we dress the music we listen
to the individual words we use conversation all convey specific meanig.
Quize 🐝

Formal and Informal language are more suited to different situations,can you
sort the following situations into the correct place in the table v
according to which style of language would be more suitable?

1.Talking to the headteacher_________ What are the 3 categories of text.

7.
2.Writing a personal diary________ 8.
9.
3.Talking to friends ________ 10.____ serve different purposes in written communicaters
depending on the reader and reason for writings.
4.Writing a personal diary ________

5. A _____ can be a film,an artifact anything in a

language and culture that conveys meaning.

6. It is a message that is extensively according

to which style of languag would be more suitable