THE ROLE OF POINT OF VIEW IN TEXT ORGANIZATION

Two studies were carried out to investigate the role of ‘point of view’ in a producing text through a ‘serial pictures method’. In study 1, technical school students were asked to write high efficient (communicative) stories corresponding to serial pictures divided into 4 parts. The result showed that text macrostructure did not necessarily have a consistent point of view. In study 2, technical school students were divided into two conditions corresponding to serial pictures (NO SUBJECT CONDITION/SUBJECT CONDITION) and were asked to write high efficient stories. When both condition groups were requested to refer to given and new informations, they preferred give ones as their point of view. When they were asked to refer only to new informations, they introduced given ones into their text making it their point of view. As predicted, the results indicate that a producer would prefer to let a receiver easily integrate new informations into a given textual world, while a point of view construction would be intimately relevant to an informational one.