" Battling The Bullies - Perspective"

The stance taken in the article is the writer condemned the school because they didn’t take any pre-cautious step to overcome bullies. As we can see, the stance of the writer is negative. One of the examples is the writer quote a statement from Dr. Cross who says that “If they don’t have one the school’s not worth going to – there are going to be dramas there”. Means that, if the school doesn’t concern or take a serious action against the bullies, the number of bullying cases will increase sharply and widely without any stop. The writer believed that the school fails to maintain an active and open anti-bullying policy. For instance, Dr. Cross says, “This is a dynamite situation and has to be handled professionally. If not, the implications are severe”. To tell the truth, school should be like fanfare not the prison.

WEEK 3

As usual, there are two presentations in one week. This third week, turn to the presentation of some topics entitled ‘A Linguistic Perspective’ and ‘The Formation of Individuals in Discourse and Genre’. The first topic presented by me, myself and my friend Faiz. I think our presentation is excellent when Madam Yaya said it’s very good. It also can be seen after all of my classmate’s face seems satisfy and doesn’t look confuse when we elaborate the details. Under ‘Linguistic Perspective’, the main point is the five aspects of writing that are field, tenor, mode, genre and ideology. field means an area of knowledge, interest and study, tenor is the general meaning or character of something, mode is a manner of doing something, genre defined as type of art while ideology is a set of belief.

Second presentation is presented by Aien and Ekin. Their presentation from my view is not so good when they just read their long point and they make it harder for us to understand. It is all about the way of using language to describe character in their surrounding. The language used by the writer is making a comparison between two kinds of people that is described as Miss Seductress and Ms Winner. Example of language to illustrate the two misses as Miss Seductress touches everyone, give direct eye contact, make her body to do the talking but Ms Winner shows confident, relax posture, co-ordinate outfit and well-modulated conversation too.

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.