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Context Analysis
(solved exercise)
The sender 
The receiver
The addresser
The addressee 
Channel 
Medium 
Purpose 
Features of context 
The sender/addresser (speaker or writer)
The receiver/addresser (the recipient of the utterance) 
The channel (chat, speech, friendly, letter, phone conversation)
The purposed (what the participants intend to should happen as a result of the communicative event). 
Text 1
When you make a phone call 
first, check the code
lift the receiver and wait for the dialing tone
dial carefully and allow the dial to return freely. 
Taken from British Telecm..Users dictionary 
Text 1 analysis 
The sender ---- British Telecm..Users dictionary
the receiver ----reader 
the addresser --- British Telecm..Users dictionary
the addressee ----- reader
channel ----- written
medium ----Communication Manual/dictionary
purpose  ------- Give instructions 
 
Text 2
We have come to the crossroads
And I must either leave you 
Or come with you
But in the darkness of my doubts 
You lifted the lamp of love
And I saw in your face  
By Kwess Brew (Ghana)
 
 context features 
The sender ---- Kwess Brew
the receiver ---- reader
the addresser---- lover 
the addressee ------ lover
channel------ written 
medium ----- poem
purpose ----- express hopeless love
 
 NOTE: 
Context analysis in non-Literary vs Literary Text 
The addressee in Non-Literary text is the recipient of the message. There is no difference between the addressee and the reader (the receiver). The British communic. dictionary users. 
Receiver in non- Literary texts is the reader of the text. There is no difference between receiver and addressee. The British communic. dictionary users. 
The receiver in literary text is the reader of the text. 
The Addressee in literary text is not the same as the receiver: the addressee is an imaginary persona who is being addressed. It is an invented persona by the author or write. In text 2 is the lover. 
 
 NOTE: 
Context analysis in non-Literary vs Literary Text 
The sender in non-literary texts is simply the writer of the text, as seen in text 1. Brittihs communication users dictionary.
The sender in literary Texts is smply the writer of the text as it can be seen in text 2 analysis – Kwess Brew
The Addresser in Non-Literary Text is not difference between the sender and the addresser. The Sender is the one who addresses the reader.
The addresser in Literary Text can be viewed as an imaginary persona created by the author, delivering the message. In some literary texts it is very clear that the addressee is not the receiver. 
As in am the grass, I cover all… 	(Carl Sandburg)
I am not yet born: Oh hear me…	(Louis MacNeice)
 
 1.	literary genre ------- Poem
2.	ambiguity (underline the word or expression) ---- in darkness of my doubts 
3.	metaphor (crossroads likened with dilemma)
4.	symbol----- crossroads 
5.	dilemma------ And I must either leave you Or come with you
6.	rhyme --- crossroad/doubts
7.	what does the expression "we have come to the crossroads," stand for?
 We don’t exactly, we are confused. 
8.	what does the expression "you lifted the lump of my love," stand for? ----- you made me love you again, you gave me hopeful love. 
 
References
Brown, G and yule G (1983), and 
Introduction to Literature Module 1- Universiade Pedagogica.