CRITICAL LITERACY: SECOND ENTRY

JOURNAL ENTRY (2)

On Friday class, 30 January 2009, the third group had present the chapter 3 that is “Language, Perspective and Ideology”. From the discussion, language is a word that used by writer which convey a certain message. The language that being used can described the writer perspective. Meaning that, language can influence the reader on how to think about the writer perspective. Perspective is the position or stance from which something is viewed by the writer. From the text, there are two type of perspective. There are white perspective and black perspective. White perspective occur at the second word of the text and can only be accepted by white audience given that white people prefer to use unpolite and harsh word. On the other hand, black perspective prefer to use an appropriate word that can be say something that a national, political or social philosophy of belief system. However, ideological still can be something that we think that related with perspective and language. At the same day, the fourth group also had present the chapter 4 that is “Texts and textualities”. Text is a combination of signs thath have various meaning for different group of people. Text always socially constructed to the certain meaning. There is a few word that should be stress that is connotation ‘a meaning or connection which is implied for a person a group’. When signs and connotation appear ‘normal’, this is because the text present itself as truthful, and as a vehicle for eternal or naturalised codings of social meanings and values. Textual analysis is we analazing the text.