Text Properties and Sentence Structures in Communication
Text in Communication Theory
In communication theory, a text is equivalent to a message. Texts can be oral or written, long or short, formal or informal. They simply fulfill their function: to communicate a complete message.
Textual Properties
- Coherence: Communicates a unified and understandable message.
- Concision: Gives the necessary information.
- Clarity: Orderly and gradual exposure of the contents.
- Precision: Specific terms and appropriate expressions are used to convey the overall sense.
Cohesion
Cohesion
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Lorca’s *The House of Bernarda Alba*: A Premonition of Tragedy
The House of Bernarda Alba is another of the dramatic peaks of Federico García Lorca. As seen in many poets of other movements, it has a premonitory meaning, printed a month before the Spanish Civil War broke out and two months before Lorca was killed. The reason for his death is the same that leads Bernarda Alba to Adela’s suicide: the abuse of authority.
Genre
Although the work is subtitled “Drama of Women in the Villages of Spain,”
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Valle-Inclán’s Literary Evolution: From Modernism to the Grotesque
- Evolution of the work of Valle-Inclán. Justifies the inclusion of “Luces de Bohemia” in one of its stages.
The production of Valle-Inclán is varied, encompassing novels, short stories, plays, and poetry. In all genres, there is a parallel development to his ideological change. Valle-Inclán’s positions differ from those taken by the authors of the Generation of ’98. While the aesthetic evolution of Valle-Inclán is complex, it would
Read MoreCharles Dickens’ Bleak House: Literary Analysis
Bleak House: A Literary Analysis
Dickens’ Opening Description of London
London. This is an abrupt and astonishingly short sentence with which to start a six-hundred-page novel. It is grammatically incomplete because it does not have a verb or an object. It somehow implies the meaning, “The scene is London.” It is also written in capital letters to highlight a place.
- Each of the first four sentences here is incomplete. Dickens is taking liberties with conventional grammar, and obviously, he is writing
Worker Writers School: Empowering Voices in Labor
Last week, readers of the New York Times may have been excited to catch some very excellent literary news, in a report by Aimee Lee Ball titled “The Real Nanny Diaries.” The story concerned a writing workshop for domestic workers currently being held at the Brooklyn Public Library. Participants have come to Brooklyn from places as remote as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lithuania, and even Texas. The workshop offers a space for the writers to share their projects and provide each other with
Read MoreNew Criticism: Methods and Principles in Literary Analysis
New Criticism: Ideas and Methods
Popularizing Literature
New Critics contemplated literature as an element of communication and preservation of traditional values. The first step was to popularize it. Only the high intellectual classes read literature, so they made it extremely pedagogical because everybody wants to have access to it.
Key Strategies
- Staffing University Departments with Critics: Little by little, they replaced the historians at the top of the departments with critics. The assistants