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Constitutive principles

They are the seven standards of textuality

Coherence:

It implies the way in which concepts and relations underlying the text are accessible and relevant. In other words how the meaning withing the text is interconected and develop through causality, enablement, reason, purpose and time.

 

 

 

Intentionality:

It creates intention or purpose of the creator through the text.

  • Writer communicating purpose/ideas through text reader (receiver)

  • Why text is created

 

Informativity:

It gives new information or more information from a text.

  • It is adding information related to things that reader knows

  • Text presents degree of ideas

  • Expected or unexpected/known or unknown

  • It is the way in which the text is significant, relevant and useful

Cohesion:

It is determined by grammatical dependencies among the textual components which cannot be rearranged without causing ambiguities.

Acceptability:

It implies a text being useful for the reader.

  • Receiver understand info

  • Text satisfaies reader’s needs

  • Receiver’s attitude toward a text(if it makes sense, sticks together)

 

Situationality:

It means that the message changes based on the context of the situation.

  • How the context makes text relevant

  • Meaning depends on context

  • No context, no meaning

Intertextuality:

It is the relation between one text and another.

  • The prevoious knowledge is necessary to understand the text

  • It is important the older information to understand the new one

Regulative Principles 

Efficiency:

It depends on the use of communicating with minimum expenditure of effort by the participants.

Effectiveness:

It depends on having a strong impression and creating favourable conditions for attaining a goal.

 

Appropriateness:

It is the agreement between its setting and the ways in which the standards of textuality are held (balance between efficiency and effectiveness)

Here we have some examples of analysing the regulative pronciples in some means of communication:

E-mails tend to be extensive so that efficiency is not always present. In addition, one can find effectiveness because one can write every detail on it. Finally, appropriateness happens only in e-mails that are important to a person or receiver, because there are some mails that contain too much information and they are not important to the reader such, such spam or surveys.

Tweets are in the majority of the cases efficient, even though effective is not always present because there are some tweets that are not relevant and also some of them do not contain content or they are incoherent. Finally, appropriateness happens sometimes depending on the relevance of the message and if it is according to the receiver.

 

Personal Reflection

During this unit we analyzed a letter in terms of constitutive principles, and we realized that not every piece of writing can be a text, because if one of them is absent it will not carry out meaning and it will not be comprehensible. In the same way the analysis of some means of communication according to the regulative principles help us to understand that a message must have a correlation between them in order to be useful when talking about communicating a message. 

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