Positioning

For this week, I have learned about unit 3 which is the focus skill about positioning. The background reading is Reading 3.3 Wignell (1995) ‘Critical Literacy; a linguistic perspective’. Next is reading 3.4 Kress (1994) ‘Speech and speakers’. For the practise text is about Reading 3.1 ‘Please let me go to your school’. The portfolio task is guided response to critical questions.
Then, for this week there were two groups present about reading 3.3 and reading 3.4. For the reading 3.3, Rozaida and Atikah present about this topic. Regarding to this group, linguistic is study of language and language is a human communication. From the text book, there were two types of text which is text A and Text B. The text A is a discussion and text B is a report. Thus, even a simple text able to manipulate and influence the reader. The text that combines with pictures helps the reader understanding. So, the text from the writer is really important for the reader. All of that discover element of the language.
After that, reading 3.4 had been presented by Hayatt and Teha. The topic is Speech and speakers: the formation of individuals and genre. Discourse is serious conversation, modes of talking and sexism which is discrimination. Then, the effect of this is lack of work. For example, there were two types of women in office. First is Miss Seductress and second is Miss Winner. To explain the situation, this group call another people to act like Miss Seductress, Miss Winner and a Boss. It is really interesting and everybody in the class understands about the situation. From that, we can say that Miss Seductress is touches everyone, direct eye contact, make her body to do the talking, attract the men, get good job after seducing her boss and she love laughing, bewitchingly. Then, Miss Winner is confident, relax posture, co-ordinate outfit, a lot of friends and well-modulated conversation. It is about two type’s women that get their job.

Next, is about language and language a users. Language can be defined as a systematic means of communication by the use of sounds or conventional symbol. Language also is considered to be an extremely human made of communication. Then, the language user is medicated through experience of skills of writing and speech text on social occasion which is speaker and knowledge. Language has a different look to different speakers or writers. For the reading position is construct by discusses which provide instruction about how to read a text. Children is somebody that parent taught to be good by their parent, so when they become worth with their parent taught it called nurture. Then, speaker is individual person but the other meaning; speaker is part of a language.
During the class, Miss Syida gives explanation about the two topic. I really understand although this topic is hard to understand.