Firstly, within both texts, emphatic stress on lexis are used. In text, A’s first part, Chris Smith and Dave Howard use stress on subject-specific lexis, for example: “double-dip recession”, “count”, and “business”. These are all related somehow to money, emphasising the topic on this section of Newsbeat – money issues, these words would be the ones that the audience would pay more attention to, thus knowing the topic, they could be used to attract a certain audience to keep listening – if they were interested in this topic. Smith also uses emphatic stress on “bad” and “bank” which could be to put emphasis on alliteration, which would therefore putting more emphasis on that topic for the audience with similar effect. However, throughout text
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A concept that is evident within both texts is the element of power within language used. In text A, the primarily dominant speaker is Chris Smith, which makes sense, as he is the host of Newsbeat. Smith has the most speech in the broadcast compared to the other reporters and contributers. In addition, he uses almost all declaratives – “sixty two thousand jobs were promised too” is an example. He also sets the agenda for the report, evident in when he gives a small overview of the news – “for the longest double-dip recession…”, and then allows another reporter to continue with the topic – “our politics reporter Dave Howard…” However, it could be argued that he is not being dominant to his counterparts on Newsbeat, as it is not a conversation with them – it is simply hosting. Nevertheless, his role within the broadcast is to be a dominant speaker, as he has to lead a lot. Another seemingly dominant speaker is Sinead, the entertainment reporter. She is heard to do a small interview with Jada and Aminah. Like Smith, Garvan uses mainly declaratives, and one interrogative, which counter argues the fact she is supposedly ‘interviewing’. It seems within her interview to the young …show more content…
Text A’s purpose seems to be to entertain; hence it is for young people. Evidence of entertainment includes mention of the “women’s football team”, which could be an entertaining topic for some young people, also a lot of the text focuses on the Olympics, a massive thing, entertaining for most. A few topics are scattered throughout text A, for example, recession, Olympics, football, unemployment, which are all things that young people may be interested in hearing or learning more about. The register in Text A is varied widely, as there are two classes of people within it: the presenters, and the contributors. The way the presenters speak is primarily Standard English, with few fillers, odd syntax, or ‘different’ pronunciation. However, the way the contributors speak is evidently different to the presenters. For example, MAN’s idiolect is evidently different; he says “da” rather than “the”, “coz” rather than “because” and he uses non-Standard English when he says, “If people wasn’t coming in” rather than “weren’t”. This is related to when Garvan says the place is ‘run-down’, his idiolect is representative of that statement (depending on how you perceive that idiolect). On the other hand, Text B’s purpose seems primarily to inform and perhaps entertain. The main subject within text B seems to be the Society of Biology, which is aimed at a niche audience – people who are interested, at least. The topic of
A concept that is evident within both texts is the element of power within language used. In text A, the primarily dominant speaker is Chris Smith, which makes sense, as he is the host of Newsbeat. Smith has the most speech in the broadcast compared to the other reporters and contributers. In addition, he uses almost all declaratives – “sixty two thousand jobs were promised too” is an example. He also sets the agenda for the report, evident in when he gives a small overview of the news – “for the longest double-dip recession…”, and then allows another reporter to continue with the topic – “our politics reporter Dave Howard…” However, it could be argued that he is not being dominant to his counterparts on Newsbeat, as it is not a conversation with them – it is simply hosting. Nevertheless, his role within the broadcast is to be a dominant speaker, as he has to lead a lot. Another seemingly dominant speaker is Sinead, the entertainment reporter. She is heard to do a small interview with Jada and Aminah. Like Smith, Garvan uses mainly declaratives, and one interrogative, which counter argues the fact she is supposedly ‘interviewing’. It seems within her interview to the young …show more content…
Text A’s purpose seems to be to entertain; hence it is for young people. Evidence of entertainment includes mention of the “women’s football team”, which could be an entertaining topic for some young people, also a lot of the text focuses on the Olympics, a massive thing, entertaining for most. A few topics are scattered throughout text A, for example, recession, Olympics, football, unemployment, which are all things that young people may be interested in hearing or learning more about. The register in Text A is varied widely, as there are two classes of people within it: the presenters, and the contributors. The way the presenters speak is primarily Standard English, with few fillers, odd syntax, or ‘different’ pronunciation. However, the way the contributors speak is evidently different to the presenters. For example, MAN’s idiolect is evidently different; he says “da” rather than “the”, “coz” rather than “because” and he uses non-Standard English when he says, “If people wasn’t coming in” rather than “weren’t”. This is related to when Garvan says the place is ‘run-down’, his idiolect is representative of that statement (depending on how you perceive that idiolect). On the other hand, Text B’s purpose seems primarily to inform and perhaps entertain. The main subject within text B seems to be the Society of Biology, which is aimed at a niche audience – people who are interested, at least. The topic of