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Understanding Claims and Context in Texts

The document discusses various types of claims, including claims of fact, value, and policy, and emphasizes the importance of context in understanding texts. It introduces intertextuality and its methods, such as retelling and parody, as well as hypertext, which allows non-linear information presentation through links. Additionally, it includes assignments for creating stories and poems using these concepts.

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Understanding Claims and Context in Texts

The document discusses various types of claims, including claims of fact, value, and policy, and emphasizes the importance of context in understanding texts. It introduces intertextuality and its methods, such as retelling and parody, as well as hypertext, which allows non-linear information presentation through links. Additionally, it includes assignments for creating stories and poems using these concepts.

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IDENTIFIES THE

CONTEXT IN
WHICH A TEXT
DEVELOP
READING AND WRITING SKILLS
Identify me!:types of claim
1. Vaping can lead to increased blood pressure, lung disease, and
insulin resistance.
• CLAIM OF FACT
2. The basic keys to success are perseverance, humility, and discipline.
• CLAIM OF VALUE
3. Teachers are expected to retire on or before their 60 th birthday.
• CLAIM OF POLICY
4. Earthquake prediction technology is an important aspect of the
Philippine National Defense’s strategy.
Identify me!:types of claim
• The recent earthquake in The Philippines, in January 2021, registered
7.0 on the Richter scale.
• CLAIM OF FACT
2. The increase of population threatens the environment.
• CLAIM OF FACT
3. The Philippines should strengthen its healthcare system to improve
access to quality medical care
• CLAIM OF POLICY
4. Peace is more valuable than war.
WHAT IS CONTEXT?
• The social, cultural, political, and historical background and other
related circumstance that surround the text.
• We must look for the background of the text
1. What was the environment which the text was made?
2. Who was the author?
3. When was it written?
4. Why was it written that time? Or for whom the text?
INTERTXT
• INTER means “in between”
• The definition of intertextuality was created by the French
semiotician Julia Kristeva in the 1960’s. she created the term from
the latin word intertexto which means “ to intermingle while
weaving”
• Refers to the shaping of the text meaning by referencing or calling
to mind other text as aims to add meaning to the current text.
• technically defined as a process of text development that merges
two more processes such as; imitation and creation.
Intertextuality using 4 specific methods
• Retelling – is the restatement of a story or re-expression of a
narrative or story.
• Parody – uses many of the same elements of a text but does it
in new and funny way.
• Allusion – pertains to a idea or passage found in another text
without explicitly mentioning it.
• Pastiche – is a text developed in a way that it copies the style
or other properties of another text without making fun.
HYPERTEXT
• Beyond or above
• Hypertext is a non-linear way to present information and is usually
accomplished using "links".
• Creating links between information.
• Hypertext is text displayed on a computer display or other electronic
devices with references to other text that the reader can immediately
access.
HYPERTEXT
• The term hypertext was coined b Ted Nelson in 1963
• Hypertext is the foundation of World Wide Web enabling users to click
on link to obtain more information on a subsequent page on the same
site or from website anywhere in the world.
• Links are not just limited to text or documents but include pictures,
video materials animated, and audio illustrations. This is also called
hypermedia.
FOR EXAMPLE:
• News Article Example

•According to a recent BBC report (full article here),

climate change is accelerating due to increased carbon

emissions. Scientists warn that without immediate action,

global temperatures could rise beyond 1.5°C (IPCC report).


FOR EXAMPLE:
Activity: Direction: at your yellow
paper, Create a story that
is quite similar to the
picture by using the four
specific method of
intextuality. (choose 1
method only!)
Assignment:To be pass on Friday.
COLLABORATIVE STORYTELLING: On your
recent activities, you write a story about
snow white and seven dwarfs, create a
poem about the story and in that poem, put
your story you created by using hypertext.
Assignment:To be pass on Friday.
Seven shadows, dim and deep,
A princess came, from slumber sleep.
Sunlight spilled, a gentle grace,
Changed their lives, and time, and place.
Quiet gone, a shared domain,
Joy and sorrow, sun and rain.

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