READING 3.4.

The sixth background reading in our syllabus is Reading 3.4. this reading use Chapter 2, ‘Speech and Speakers: the information of individuals in discourse and genre’, from a book entitled Linguistic Process in sociocultural practice. The publisher of this book is Deakin University Press. The author of this text is Kress, G. based on the text, the writer shows how text construct particular identities for their readers a process called ‘positioning’. Other than that, the writer also illustrates how text interact the reader into a particular value systems. Other than that, Kress also introduces and classify a number of important terms for example, ‘ideal reader’, ‘subject position’, ‘reading position’ and ‘construction’. In conclusion, Kress said that our ability to use and understand language reflects how texts have shaped us as people. Which means the understanding of who we are and our attitudes to other people and the world in general.