| By Rosli Abidin
Yahya
Hj Osman delivering a workshop for officials.
"Wacana" (group of
texts representing letters, speeches, literary works - such as
novels and short stories, and newspapers reports or articles)
was a topic being explained in detail at the 4th session of
in-house training for the staff of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka (DBP)
Brunei Darussalam yesterday.
The workshop was conducted by a
Language Officer of DBP, Hj Osman bin Begawan Pehin Siraja
Khatib Dato Seri Setia Hj Awg Mohamad Tamin at the Dewan
Sarmayuda, DBP, Berakas.
Some 46 DBP officials attended
the workshop.
Hj Osman explained that Wacana
is a complete text, which has a beginning, a content, and an
end. It can also be supported by data, graphs, maps and
statistical representation. But most importantly, however,
Wacana must have an objective.
"There are seven elements
before a group of texts can be considered a Wacana.
"It must have an
objective; it contributes in relations to writers, readers and
speakers; it is based upon speaker-community relationship; it
must have sequence; it must contain new information in every
sentence; it must not contain illogical subjects and it must
have old and new information in it," he said.
He said Wacana is a method of
human intercommunication by means of conversing or writing.
Writing, he added, can be
achieved in either limited or full systems - a full system being
one that is capable of expressing unambiguously any concept that
is formulated in language.
"Therefore, full writing
systems are characterised by a more or less fixed correspondence
between the signs of the writing system and elements of the
language the writing represents," he said.
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