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Figure 6: What’s your culture? (Kris)

 

Look:

My first impressions for this picture are colorful; about identifying your own culture, everyone supposes have their unique

It is a picture with a big title ‘what’s your own culture?’ The sender is Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council.

 

Read:

The image says about ‘culture’. It is presented in administration form, which wants people, who look at the picture, to think more about their specific culture.

It consists of just a few words in form of a big bolded title in white color; and with a bright colorful background, in red, purple, orange and green.

The big title in the middle of the picture makes this text an administration.

 

Explore:

The dominant signifiers are the words and the background. The syntagm is ‘culture’, and the paradigm could be people’s countries background, religion, growing environment or education level. It is presented in semi-formal register.

The significant vocabulary is the word ‘culture’, its mode of address is very direct (telling people to think about their own culture). It doesn’t show any bias as the background is in several different color, it shows culture can have their own color and can be different with others.

 

Review:

A really good text, it shows people to think more about which culture they belong to or if they have their own specific culture. An idea may be included in the text is that people in different cultural background can be mixed together and new picture can be created when different culture are mixed together. In fact the idea of mixing the cultures and people with different culture are now already appear in most of the countries.

It can be says that my review is as what I originally thought about.

Just a little question about the color of the background, why is every color has a significant different with the color next to them but not in color that might be similar to each color?