Text Analysis: Analysis Of A Language And Cultural Texts

1. Definitions

Text analysis is a method of analysis of primary data from the point of view of the content and speech (Perkins, 2004, p. 35). In this sense, it can be considered a means of communication from a cultural perspective, a universal protocol, with a message to be transmitted, using image as a key to communication (Tomko, 2004, p. 72).

Cultural texts are a “language-game of cultural studies” (Barker, 2005, p. 4). This term and, implicitly, the qualitative research method, are used by historians, geographers, ethnologists, sociologists, linguists, etc. and are closely associated with the research in these fields. The analysis of a cultural text is no less than the decryption of the message transmitted. However, it is not a classical operation of understanding, but rather a destructuring of the content.

Another definition of

The linguistic differences existent on the island of Sardinia will be exemplified in his article by presenting a series of graffiti. Further, we will find out what their meaning is and how they can be considered as cultural texts.

This study shows how graffiti, if we look at them as cultural texts, will offer us important information about the relationship between orality, identity, and writing in Sardinia, a region which has a different culture, a different political view and a different dialect in comparison with the rest of the country. 23 graffiti were studied (out of 140 graffiti found), all of them from Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia.

To define the purpose of this study, we will quote the author who says: “I present some considerations on the relationship between graphic realisation and orality in the production of graffiti. More precisely, I focus on graphic deviations from written conventions (more or less established), which are produced to assert identity or to achieve a humorous effect” (Depau, 2012, p.