Inferencing and Spreading Activation:

1.Location: In written texts, location is visualized in readers’ minds through the language of the writer. Here the adjectives provide us to understand how the things look like or descriptions enable us to understand how the couple is lovely and proud, how Jupiter is powerful. Example “immeasurable power of gods”, “lowly house”, “the tiny,lowly hut ...turned into a stately pillared temple of whitest marble with a golden roof”.

Furthermore, the sequence of the events are visuailzed by the mental imagery of the readers as I did below:

 Gods go to Phrygia ( it seemes as if they were dressed with  a magic stick and turned out to the peasants in a second.), They visit houses, in a poor house with a devated couple, the poor house turns into a temple like amarvellous palace, in a bright weather, colorful and lovely tree.

2. Time: In the text “when”, “then”, “at last”, by this tiem”, “presently”, “at once” provides the redaer with the “time” concept.

3. Apperception:

Cause: Jupiter’s desire to visit the earth

Purpose: Jupiter wants to see the people of Phrygia(which will give lessons to all humanity which is the aim of this myth basically)

Agency: Jupiter, Mercury, Baucis, Philemon ( By changing the roles they all become agents in the text from time to time.)

 

3. CONCLUSION

         As it is aimed at the beginning, the text, “Baucis and Philemon” has been studied in detail in terms of the seven standards of textuality.  By means of this study, the importance of such a detailed study has been proved to be essential and necessary to understand the text by considering not only the linguistic elements as it has been done in “Cohesion” part only, but more detailed one as it has been extended through other six items. With “Coherence” the importance of the relations between the concepts, in a text words, is comprehended; with  “Intentionality” the necessity of the leadership of the aim and the intention of the text attributed to it by its writer; with “Acceptability” getting and accepting the message as a receiver as it is attributed by the writer(producer) of the text, with “Informativity” the vitality of getting the new message correctly and being capable of differentiating the order of the importance of these messages, with “Situationality”, maybe the primary one, the context of the text, and finally with “Intertextuality”, the importance of interrelationships of all, the importance of the participants’(receivers, producers) knowledge of other texts in order to produce and to receive the texts correctly and effectively has come into existence while analyzing the texts.