This essay will focus on the critical analysis and comparison of two texts sharing the subject: “Manchester Pride 2017”. The main focus of the analysis will be the similarities and differences of the texts in terms of vocabulary, grammatical structure and style. Some other features of language will be briefly analysed as well. The first text is a news article from BBC News Online untitled “Manchester Pride: Thousands line streets for 'Graduation Parade'”, and the second is a blog post untitled “MANCHESTER PRIDE 2017”. This essay will introduce both those texts in order to underline their most important features which will later be analysed and compared with more details.
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This first part of the essay will focus on the main differences between the headlines. The headline is one of the most important feature in journalese style, as its main aim is to attract the reader's eyes, in order for them to pause, think, and maybe read through the article after all. The headline of the article has an informative and attractive function. “It [the headline] should, in theory, encapsulate the story in a minimum number of words, attract the reader to the story and, if it appears on the front page, attract the reader to the paper.” (Reah, 1998:13). Something worth noticing about the header of the first text is the fact that it does not mention the terrors attacks even though an entire paragraph of the article is revolving around them. On the other hand, the title of the blog post does not mention them either, but unlike the article, there is only one line of the post dedicated to them. Other differences can be noticed as well between the two headlines, such as the simplistic grammatical structure of the first one and its use of figures of speech. There is a metonymy in the first title, where the word “thousands” is used in place of a word actually describing people. “Metonymy is replacing the name of something by the name of a related thing” (Hicks, 1998:63). Here, the number of people is replaced by a simple …show more content…
“The style in which you write is the way in which you carry out any piece of writing; and, as this has been stressed, the way in which you do it must be suited to your purpose in doing it and to the audience for whom it is intended.” (Burton &Humphries, 1992:90). Concerning the first text, Hicks says, in order to be effective, the style of a newspaper article must have “four principal attributes: suitability, simplicity, precision and poise.” (1998:59). The use of direct, active verbs such as “celebrates”, “climbed” or “pays” are tools of suitability while the short, simple, everyday life vocabulary is used for simplicity. On another hand, Myers explains that “Blogs are defined by what they link to and how they link” (2010:28) rather than by a precise, well-defined style of writing. In this particular example, however, there is no links to other posts inside the text itself, but the web page is full of
The first text is an article from BBC News Online, which is a subdivision …show more content…
This first part of the essay will focus on the main differences between the headlines. The headline is one of the most important feature in journalese style, as its main aim is to attract the reader's eyes, in order for them to pause, think, and maybe read through the article after all. The headline of the article has an informative and attractive function. “It [the headline] should, in theory, encapsulate the story in a minimum number of words, attract the reader to the story and, if it appears on the front page, attract the reader to the paper.” (Reah, 1998:13). Something worth noticing about the header of the first text is the fact that it does not mention the terrors attacks even though an entire paragraph of the article is revolving around them. On the other hand, the title of the blog post does not mention them either, but unlike the article, there is only one line of the post dedicated to them. Other differences can be noticed as well between the two headlines, such as the simplistic grammatical structure of the first one and its use of figures of speech. There is a metonymy in the first title, where the word “thousands” is used in place of a word actually describing people. “Metonymy is replacing the name of something by the name of a related thing” (Hicks, 1998:63). Here, the number of people is replaced by a simple …show more content…
“The style in which you write is the way in which you carry out any piece of writing; and, as this has been stressed, the way in which you do it must be suited to your purpose in doing it and to the audience for whom it is intended.” (Burton &Humphries, 1992:90). Concerning the first text, Hicks says, in order to be effective, the style of a newspaper article must have “four principal attributes: suitability, simplicity, precision and poise.” (1998:59). The use of direct, active verbs such as “celebrates”, “climbed” or “pays” are tools of suitability while the short, simple, everyday life vocabulary is used for simplicity. On another hand, Myers explains that “Blogs are defined by what they link to and how they link” (2010:28) rather than by a precise, well-defined style of writing. In this particular example, however, there is no links to other posts inside the text itself, but the web page is full of