How meaning is made? Help! (1 Viewer)

[elisabeth]

OK, this is due Wednesday and I'm a bit screwed...

can anyone explain what I'm meant to write about when a question asks 'How is meaning made?' or 'How effectively does this text present its truth?'

Is it stuff like layout, litery techniques (alliteration, metaphors, rhetorical questions, emotive language and the like)?

What can you say about TV news shows? Are you meant to talk about pictures, tone, camera angles, close ups, etc?

 

[MaryTylerMoore]

Is this for Module C or how journeys are conveyed? Usually it will need to be through techniques and you will need to relate them to the truth you picked up from the text. For example, Coleridge uses vivid, descriptive imagery (insert example - like colour and detail) to help the responder create a mental image of the scene he is describing. Go into like colours, what they mean, his choice of words, how he arranges them, poetic techniques etc.

For truth you might have to compare your notions to what is in the text. E.g. in Geoffrey Robertson's The Justice Game, he makes Princess Diana seem like she is in the wrong and is savagely prosecuting the gym manager. I personally could sympathise with her so the ways in which he tried to make her seem less credible, meaner etc. were more obvious. E.g. when he refers to her by her surname (Ms Windsor) when she is actually Princess/HRH reduces her status etc. His tone is disrespectful and he chose it on purpose to convey his truth subtley.

 

[malkin86]

Choice of language: One example is a feelgood story about a group of Japanese shopping centre Santas-in-training - the language "more Santas than you can poke a chopstick at". Thankyou very much, channel 9, using colloquial cliche and racist overtones at the same time.