Discourse can be defined as “meaningful communicative transactions” (UTS 2016) and also “forms of subjectivity and power relations which inhere in such knowledge and relations between them” (Weedon, 1987) which means that the knowledge is a process of acquire where discourses can be referred as “more than one way of thinking and producing meaning, they constitute the ‘nature’ of the body, unconscious and conscious mind and emotional life” (Weedon, 1987), which in other words means that by logical thinking and emotions to generate personal views. Discourse forms around topics that happens in our daily life, such as on the topic of animal testing. The debate on the animal testing is never been settled. Animals in scientific experiments in the
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The first linguistic device that occurs in both texts are foregrounding by positioning of information. Foregrounding can be defined as make an idea the most prominent or important feature, while back grounding happens when an idea is not emphasized in the text or make it to appear less important. With the first text, Cancer Research, written by David Scott emphasized the words ‘animal research’ instead of ‘animal testing’ as it will make it sounds less crucial as well as make it sounds more scientific. Scott highlighted the importance of the animal testing by states “…cancer kills over 400 people everyday in the UK, and all our work is aimed at reducing this death toll, (Cancer Research UK 2014)” and he emphasized the success of the testing by states ““…survival from cancer has doubled in the last 40 years…this progress simply wouldn’t have been possible without animal research. (Cancer Research UK 2014)”. He also used words such as ‘legal requirement’ and emphasized that all animals are treated humanely “All our researchers follow strict laws – some of the most stringent in the world – that ensure that animals are treated humanely and only used when there’s no alternative. (Cancer Research UK 2014)”. Which all of these information that has been foregrounds plays a great roll in manipulating the reader to believe that the animal testing is a good thing and right thing to do as it can save lives of the cancer patients. However, on the other side, the second text by Animals Australia went the totally opposite way. Besides that the second text prominent the words of ‘animal testing’, it emphasizes that the animals are exposed to
The first linguistic device that occurs in both texts are foregrounding by positioning of information. Foregrounding can be defined as make an idea the most prominent or important feature, while back grounding happens when an idea is not emphasized in the text or make it to appear less important. With the first text, Cancer Research, written by David Scott emphasized the words ‘animal research’ instead of ‘animal testing’ as it will make it sounds less crucial as well as make it sounds more scientific. Scott highlighted the importance of the animal testing by states “…cancer kills over 400 people everyday in the UK, and all our work is aimed at reducing this death toll, (Cancer Research UK 2014)” and he emphasized the success of the testing by states ““…survival from cancer has doubled in the last 40 years…this progress simply wouldn’t have been possible without animal research. (Cancer Research UK 2014)”. He also used words such as ‘legal requirement’ and emphasized that all animals are treated humanely “All our researchers follow strict laws – some of the most stringent in the world – that ensure that animals are treated humanely and only used when there’s no alternative. (Cancer Research UK 2014)”. Which all of these information that has been foregrounds plays a great roll in manipulating the reader to believe that the animal testing is a good thing and right thing to do as it can save lives of the cancer patients. However, on the other side, the second text by Animals Australia went the totally opposite way. Besides that the second text prominent the words of ‘animal testing’, it emphasizes that the animals are exposed to