WEEK 2

For Reading 2.2, the topic is about ‘Language, Perspective and Ideology’. Overall, the presentation of Group 3 consists of Ena, Farhana and Shareen is good because they use simple words that allow us to understand it quickly. What I understand about ‘Language’ is the usage of language will be very different when there are a different people who use the language with different ways. Under language, there are white language and black language. White language refers to white people as the writer. Usually, the words quite rude, straight forward and bias towards black people as the target reader. Otherwise, black language is neutral. Besides, perspective is between positive and negative stance from the writer and ideology is belief system. This reflect on the writer itself whether he or she is in the good emotion or absolutely not.

For second presentation in this week, Group 4 which is both Nisa were presented very well but I still get confused with the concept of ‘Text and textualities’ because they use difficult word not the easy one when presenting this topic. First, text is a combination of signs, symbol and others. Textual is connected with content of the text. Then, text has 2 types which is verbal text and fashion text. Verbal text is sentence structure while fashion text is the part of the way advertising and news works. It could be clothes, colors, images. An example of textualities is gold color will be symbolized as status and wealth.