Source Text Analysis

This article explores the concept of intertextuality and its role in shaping a text's meaning. It also discusses the relationship between genre and style in literature and the translation theory of Christiane Nord. Additionally, the article examines the use of extratextual features in discussing the benefits and safety of vaccination.

Source text analysis

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Intertextuality is the shaping of a text's which means by way of some other text.
Intertextuality does no longer require citing or referencing punctuation and is frequently
incorrect for plagiarism. Intertextuality can be produced in texts the usage of a spread of features
along with allusion, citation and referencing (Davier, and Van Doorslaer, 2018). Intertextuality is
an advanced literary device making use of a textual reference inside some body of text, which
displays again the text used as a reference. Instead of using referential terms from one of a kind
literary works, intertextuality attracts upon the concept, rhetoric, or ideology from other writings
to be merged within the new text. Extratextual factors are communicative and situational factors
that use ST. These factors represent a textual content's external structure, and they consist of the
Sender, Sender's intention, target market, medium/channel, vicinity, time, motive, and function.
The term genre in is similar to the time period style in that it implies linguistic features
that mark communicative situations specially social putting. However, registers are basically
variations in language use in non-literary situations (e.G. An interview, sports observation, a
Smartphone conversation, a political speech, criminal language) and depend loads upon the
social history, geography, sex and age of the language consumer. When distinguishing among
“register” and “genre” a few linguists decide upon seeing the latter as a selected situational
configuration of linguistic sources which is contextually decided (Dicerto, 2018). The former is
then taken into consideration at a “higher stage” and regarded as a shape common for companies
of texts which can be identified as performing widely comparable capabilities in a society (e.G.
Poem, novel, essay, record). For instance, the feature of reporting may be achieved via one-of-a-
kind genres of reports – climate reviews, progress reviews, and many others., and in the style of,
say, weather file, there are such registers as TV climate forecasts and newspaper weather precis,
which fluctuate in medium-determined linguistic functions
Christiane Nord’s idea of translation originated from Karl Buhler’s Organon purposeful
translation idea created in 1954. It states that there are 3 fundamental features of language:
referential, expressive, and appellative. Hence, in keeping with this version, speech is an
instrument for a person to render a message or concept to a receiver. The expressive and
appellative capabilities of language, therefore, enable one to recognize the tone of the speech
without understanding the content and which means of the message. As according to the
referential characteristic, they will describe a message the use of the manner of his or her native
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language. Nord followed those three capabilities and introduced a fourth one, called the phatic
function. Its emergence was because of improvements made to the concept. The function serves
to establish, to lengthen, or to discontinue verbal exchange among a sender and a receiver, to test
whether or not the channel works, to attract the attention of the interlocutor, or to affirm his
endured recognition.
In order to write an article, an author make focus on the different aspects, features and
techniques of literature which support in shaping a good article. For example, in 'Will my child
be protected by herd immunity if I don’t get them vaccinated?' this particular section extra-
textual texting is using by defining the information about herd immunity. Also some line of this
section is writing by using intra-textual form of literature (Jockers and Thalken, 2020). In
“Breast milk does contain some antibodies which are passed to the baby, especially in the first
few days. However, this ‘passive immunity’ wears off after a few weeks, and after that
breastfeeding offers very little protection from serious infectious diseases. It is therefore best to
get your child vaccinated even if you are breastfeeding long-term.”, this section, the author use
style and genre in order to epxlain the benefits of breastfeeding for a baby in order to protect
them from infectious diseases. Narrational commentary in the shape of intertextual addition
figures prominently in this passage, including the self justifying “During any infection by
bacteria or viruses, our immune........”. Anothe part of literatire, 'I thought that people only died
of infectious diseases in the past because medical treatment wasn’t very good?' This is not
true......” is completed by the authour by using extrtextual feature of literature.
Other section ;” Vaccine safety, side effects and ingredients. ‘Is it sfae for babies an
children to hav =e several vaccines at onces?”, is completed by including information about
vaccine safety, its ingredentsa and its side effects. This narrational commentary presents another
case of intertextual addition. A cognizent reader who has access to both versions may
immediately doubt the narrator’s reliablity. The information mentioned in the whole assessment
cobtains some weak and strong aspects about vaccine.
The section, „ What about the long term negative effects of vaccination that we don’t yet
know about?....” contain genre and styles as well as making use of intertextual fetures of
literature (Kyle, 2020). ‘The original research which suggested a link between the MMR vaccine
and autism has now been discredited. The National Autistic Society has issued a statement
stating that the weight of evidence points to the fact that ‘there is no statistically significant link
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between the MMR vaccine and autism’. An analysis of studies involving over 1 million
children found no link between vaccination and autism development in children. Watch this
short film in which experts say why they believe there is no link between the MMR vaccine and
autism, and see more on our MMR vaccine page ('Is the vaccine safe?' towards the bottom of the
page).” in this part, the author taking abiut a specific vaccines and define informtaion whcih is
issued by NAS in cotext of MMR vaccine.
‘'Do vaccines weaken the immune system?' ..... part of this article is completed by the
author or writer by using extratextual features due to organisating research in order two compare
two team of children in order to analyse the impact of vccination over them (Roberts, 2020). It is
analysed that some children hospitalised due to diffeeent kind of infection like chest and
stocmach. But some are childten did not face any problesm.
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REFRRECES
Books & Journals
Davier, L. and Van Doorslaer, L., 2018. Translation without a source text: methodological issues
in news translation. Across Languages and Cultures, 19(2), pp.241-257.
Dicerto, S., 2018. A new model for source text analysis in translation. In Multimodal Pragmatics
and Translation (pp. 1-14). Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Jockers, M.L. and Thalken, R., 2020. Text Analysis with R. Springer International Publishing.
Kyle, K., 2020. The relationship between features of source text use and integrated writing
quality. Assessing Writing, 45, p.100467.
Roberts, C.W. ed., 2020. Text analysis for the social sciences: Methods for drawing statistical
inferences from texts and transcripts. Routledge.
Humphreys, A. and Wang, R.J.H., 2018. Automated text analysis for consumer research. Journal
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Intratextuality, extratextuality, intertextuality: unreliability in autobiography versus fiction.
2020. [Online]. Available Through:
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_in_autobiography_versus_fiction>.
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