Language A: Language and Literature · The seven concepts

CONCEPTS — The seven concepts

Language A: Language and Literature · SL / HL · syllabus-mapped notes

1. LAL_C_1

   Identity

   The complex relationship between authors and creators, the voices and personas they construct, and the identity a reader or viewer brings to interpretation.

2. LAL_C_2

   Culture

   How a text relates to the values and context of its production and reception, and to the conventions of its form or text type.

3. LAL_C_3

   Creativity

   The role of imagination and craft in making and receiving texts, originality, and the range of meanings a reader can generate.

4. LAL_C_4

   Communication

   The relationship a text builds between writer or creator and audience, and how choices of style, structure and medium shape that exchange.

5. LAL_C_5

   Perspective

   The many viewpoints in and around a text, and how texts position their audiences to see the world in a particular way.

6. LAL_C_6

   Transformation

   How texts rework, adapt and respond to other texts, and how meaning changes across forms, media and readings.

7. LAL_C_7

   Representation

   How form, language and image re-present reality, and the relationship between the world and its portrayal in a text.