clause structure The above table show that,
- text 1 contains 12 transitive structure clause, 9 intransitive and 2 Short passive clause.
- text2 contains 8 transitive structure clause, 10 intransitive and 5 Short passive.
Although both texts focus on the same event of Rabaa Al Adawiya , it may be expected that
Police and protesters play major active roles in both texts. nonetheless as could be note from the above analysis this is not so. Text 1uses more intransitive clauses and less intransitive and Short passive clauses. Text 2 contains less transitive structure clause, more intransitive and Short passive.
Material process
Material processes are ‘doing’ verbs, which represent physical actions.
The Gulf News report has more material …show more content…
However , there are only two action processes attributed to policemen;
-‘security forces have taken control of a major protest camp in Cairo’ ,
-‘we evacuated the sit-in at Al Nahda’.
However, the Financial Times’ text include four action processes attributed to policemen and only one attributed to Protesters.
Police as actor
8-As the army tightens its grip
12- once the security forces moved in on the Islamist protesters 19-The military, which brought down a democratically elected government last month
21-has ignited Islamist fury further by trying to crush the Muslim Brotherhood.
Protesters as actor
13- who have occupied public squares in Cairo
short passive
likewise The Gulf News uses more short passive structures (the actor goes unmentioned) it used five time ;
3-‘Rabaa Al Adawiya has been cleared completely’
4-‘and is being combed’
10- ‘if the large numbers of the demonstrators in the site is taken into consideration’
11- ‘Some 149 people have been killed in clashes between Brotherhood's …show more content…
The death of democracy in Financial Times( democracy dies a violent death) in contrast to the Golfnews which focuses on the killings of policemen (43 policemen killed) .And from the analysis that done above clarified that, Financial Times tends to show the event more objectively by attempt to represent the two agents police and protesters view point ,in addition it uses evaluation structure that aim to display both parties responsibility for what happened. For example, ‘All sides share the blame’’. While, it blames the army and expressing sympathy with the Muslim Brotherhood, using (Lexical choices) such as the word " the carnage " to describe the police or the army attack on the demonstrators and use the metaphor such as (the death toll mounts) in addition to, evaluator that it had been the exclusion of democracy by the government coup and describes that by the word “ illusion” . as well as there is in text more material process that concerned with the policemen in the text more than material process that back to the demonstrators. However we can Note that , there is attempt from the Financial Times to balance the presentation of the news and to stand of both sides one position(impartiality) through the use of words and expressions which blame the other side too( demonstrators) for example, the word( the worst) and expressions
- text 1 contains 12 transitive structure clause, 9 intransitive and 2 Short passive clause.
- text2 contains 8 transitive structure clause, 10 intransitive and 5 Short passive.
Although both texts focus on the same event of Rabaa Al Adawiya , it may be expected that
Police and protesters play major active roles in both texts. nonetheless as could be note from the above analysis this is not so. Text 1uses more intransitive clauses and less intransitive and Short passive clauses. Text 2 contains less transitive structure clause, more intransitive and Short passive.
Material process
Material processes are ‘doing’ verbs, which represent physical actions.
The Gulf News report has more material …show more content…
However , there are only two action processes attributed to policemen;
-‘security forces have taken control of a major protest camp in Cairo’ ,
-‘we evacuated the sit-in at Al Nahda’.
However, the Financial Times’ text include four action processes attributed to policemen and only one attributed to Protesters.
Police as actor
8-As the army tightens its grip
12- once the security forces moved in on the Islamist protesters 19-The military, which brought down a democratically elected government last month
21-has ignited Islamist fury further by trying to crush the Muslim Brotherhood.
Protesters as actor
13- who have occupied public squares in Cairo
short passive
likewise The Gulf News uses more short passive structures (the actor goes unmentioned) it used five time ;
3-‘Rabaa Al Adawiya has been cleared completely’
4-‘and is being combed’
10- ‘if the large numbers of the demonstrators in the site is taken into consideration’
11- ‘Some 149 people have been killed in clashes between Brotherhood's …show more content…
The death of democracy in Financial Times( democracy dies a violent death) in contrast to the Golfnews which focuses on the killings of policemen (43 policemen killed) .And from the analysis that done above clarified that, Financial Times tends to show the event more objectively by attempt to represent the two agents police and protesters view point ,in addition it uses evaluation structure that aim to display both parties responsibility for what happened. For example, ‘All sides share the blame’’. While, it blames the army and expressing sympathy with the Muslim Brotherhood, using (Lexical choices) such as the word " the carnage " to describe the police or the army attack on the demonstrators and use the metaphor such as (the death toll mounts) in addition to, evaluator that it had been the exclusion of democracy by the government coup and describes that by the word “ illusion” . as well as there is in text more material process that concerned with the policemen in the text more than material process that back to the demonstrators. However we can Note that , there is attempt from the Financial Times to balance the presentation of the news and to stand of both sides one position(impartiality) through the use of words and expressions which blame the other side too( demonstrators) for example, the word( the worst) and expressions