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Learning Objective:. To answer the question: Referring a specific event, explain why texts are polysemic ?. Be a journalist for a day. A story has just come through the newswire. You have five minutes to turn this into a newspaper front page.

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  1. Learning Objective: To answer the question: Referring a specific event, explain why texts are polysemic?

  2. Be a journalist for a day... • A story has just come through the newswire. • You have five minutes to turn this into a newspaper front page. • Editor. Guides the emotion/tone of the front page and feeds back decisions. • Headline writer (who must justify choice) • Photographer (who must draw or describe their image, justifying their decision) Extension: create a caption for your image.

  3. But... • You have all explained the same event! Why are the stories so different?

  4. Why are texts polysemic? • Whose perspective is the story told from? (The authorities’? The victim’s? The nation’s?) How may this change meaning? • What different news values could this story fulfil (think of the different headlines)? How may this change the story’s angle? • What different audiences are being written for? (Families? Legal experts? People in Pakistan)? How may this alter the story’s focus? • How may political bias affect the representation of this event? • Why can events be ‘read’ differently? (Refer to all of the above).

  5. Guess the event... Watch the following clip. What kind of news do you think the anchor is waiting for?

  6. “I’m just saying that General Thomas McInerney and I will be high-fiving and tears will be flowing if the news is that good. We should be that lucky.”

  7. Event 2: The death of Osama Bin Laden

  8. How may people respond differently to that news report? • In pairs, you will be given a different audience to consider. • Write down what their views and opinions would be of that news report? Would they find it tasteful/humorous/exciting/ informative? Justify your choice.

  9. Why are texts polysemic? Referring to news reporting the death of Osama bin Laden, why are texts polysemic? How does the writer’s location, views, opinions and target audience affect the text’s construction? How does the audience’s views and experiences make a difference to the text’s meaning?

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