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Analysing Texts - 'The Big 5' (1) Copy 2

This document outlines "The Big 5" framework for analyzing texts, which examines the audience and purpose, content and theme, tone and mood, stylistic devices, and structure of a text. It provides questions under each aspect to guide analysis of who the intended audience is, the context of when and why the text was created, the main ideas and messages conveyed, the attitude and emotions expressed, the linguistic techniques used, and how the text is organized. Considering these five elements gives a holistic understanding of a text and how its form and content are tailored to its intended reception.

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Analysing Texts - 'The Big 5' (1) Copy 2

This document outlines "The Big 5" framework for analyzing texts, which examines the audience and purpose, content and theme, tone and mood, stylistic devices, and structure of a text. It provides questions under each aspect to guide analysis of who the intended audience is, the context of when and why the text was created, the main ideas and messages conveyed, the attitude and emotions expressed, the linguistic techniques used, and how the text is organized. Considering these five elements gives a holistic understanding of a text and how its form and content are tailored to its intended reception.

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Analysing Texts - 'The Big 5'

ASPECT TEXT “title” (text type):

Audience and Purpose


Context of composition
- Describe the time and place that this text was
produced / published.
- Who wrote the text?
- Why was the text produced? (Purpose)

Intended audience
1 - Who was this text aimed at? How can you tell?

Context of interpretation / reception


- What are the reader’s circumstances? (time and
place)
- How does the text anticipate the needs of its
audience? (i.e. how does the content, form and
style ‘suit’ the audience?)

Content and Theme


Content is what is in a text. Themes are more
what a text is about (big ideas).

Content:
- What references are made in the text? (concrete
2 references to people, places, things, or abstract
mention of ideas)

Theme:
- What is the significance of the text to its
audience?
- What is the text actually saying / message?
Tone and Mood
Tone refers to the implied attitude of the author of
a text and the ‘voice’ which shows this attitude.
Mood refers more to the emotional atmosphere
that is produced for a reader when experiencing a
text.
3 - What is the writer’s tone? How does the author
sound?
- What kind of diction does the author use to
create this tone?
- How does the text make the reader feel? (mood)
- How does the diction contribute to this effect?
- How does the tone and mood help further the
main idea and purpose of the text?

Stylistic Devices
Style refers to the ‘how’ of a text - how do the
writers say whatever it is that they sat? (e.g.
rhetorical devices, figurative language, syntax
etc…)

- What stylistic devices does the writer use? What


effect(s) do these devices have on a reader? How
4 do these devices help further the main idea and
purpose of the text?

Structure / Layout
5
Structure refers to the form of a text.

- What kind of text is it? What features let you


know this? (Start here, but can research online as
well)
- What structural conventions for that text type are
used?
- Does this text conform to, or deviate from, the
standard conventions for that particular text type?
- How does the structure and layout help further
the main idea and purpose of the text?

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