RUBRIC

• How can language be manipulated to create a distinctive voice?

• What Textual Conventions are used? Techniques and structure used to create particular meanings, adding to the creation of a ‘distinctive voice’.

• How language shapes understanding, perceptions of and relationships with others and the world

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• How does language create, reflect and enhance our perception of experience?
• What is the simulacrum?
• SIMULACRUM: French philosopher Baudrillard – real experience becomes artificial representation in texts: TV, comp games, spoken recounts…
• Essentially we are looking at how texts become a re-creation or re-representation of a particular experience.
• How do individuals communicate in order to share their version of reality? They re-create a reality that may not be experienced at that time by the listener, but rather the language creates a simulacrum of that experience.
• Pictures created in our minds enable us to create a mental experience, a simulacra, of the event. However the responder needs to understand the context and situation being spoken about to in order for the text to make sense.
• For example some phrases/words can be used in many different contexts, it is their context that changes their meaning.
• In order to understand the full meaning of the speech, we need to understand their context.
• Language choices by the composer shape the way we share that same experience.
• There is an important inter-relationship here: Experience creates language: we see it we name it. And language creates experience.

TASK:

Write your own understanding of what a simulacrum is, and how language re-creates experience that can be understood by the responder.

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HSC Requirements

Examination rubrics

English (Standard)

Paper 2 – Modules

Section I – Module A: Experience Through Language

In your answer you will be assessed on how well you:

• demonstrate understanding of how distinctive voices are created in texts
• demonstrate understanding of meanings shaped through distinctive voices
• organise, develop and express your ideas using language appropriate to audience, purpose and form

So to break this down you will look at:

• various types and functions of voices in texts.
• the ways language is used to create voices in texts
• how this use of language affects interpretation and shapes meaning.
• one prescribed text, in addition to other texts providing examples of distinctive voices.

RELATED MATERIAL

• FIND A RELATED TEXT that has points of connections and ALSO points of difference, to show a further understanding. Make sure it is saying something in itself.

A SPEECH:

• Refer to the ‘audience’, ‘listener’, as well as ‘responder’. They are heard.
• The purpose is to persuade
• Know the elements of Rhetoric: the art of using language to communicate effectively.

THE SPEECHES:

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• Martin Luther King – ‘I Have a Dream’, 1963
• Severn Cullis-Suzuki – Address to the Plenary Session at the Earth Summit Rio Centro, Brazil, 1992
• John F Kennedy – Inaugural Address, 1961
• Jessie Street – ‘Is It to be Back to the Kitchen?’, 1944
• Earl Spencer – Eulogy for Princess Diana, 1997
• Indira Gandhi – ‘True Liberation of Women’, 1980