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contrasting political ideologies, but rather, to field an opinion regarding the way in which any
political matter is handled in terms of language. The text is also informative, in that it does name
actual examples of speech, and applies them to reallife, prior political happenings. This text is
intended for a far wider audience than a usual political article, owning mainly to its topic, and initial
youthspeak favouring stance. The relation between audience and purpose is primarily to sell the
paper, as youth reading this might give the political pages a second glance in future, but secondarily
to express the journalists viewpoint.
The title uses a standard 'street' template, using with the demonstrative, and the concrete, count,
common noun 'thingy', combined with the dynamic, present continuous verb 'bombing' to catch the
glance of a passive, (web)pageflicking reader, thereby tempting the target audience (of new, young
readers) to read the article, opening the door to the writers primary objective. Also, he probably got
a bit of a giggle when he wrote it, accomplishing his secondary objective.
The use of alliteration in 'strangled syntax' (found, line 2 of paragraph 1) forms a marked contrast
between the writer, who doesn't have command of massive army, not to mention a payload of
nuclear weapons, and the implied inarticulate president. This, albeit offensive, stereotypical and
crude view, serves a purpose, as it brings the reader into the main text beyond the title, forming a
layer beyond the summary lines and the main text. Thereby accomplishing the writers primary
objective, as well as alluding to the writers own impressions of America's Divine Emissary, thereby
accomplishing the writers secondary objective.
Over half the second paragraph is a quotation, after the 'fairly' subjective and unsupported views
expressed in the first paragraph, the writer (rightly, in my opinion) saw fit to lend a bit of evidence
to his claims, except this time, they were aimed at the other partner in the 'Whitehouse poodle act'
to not only lend credence to the writer's claims, but also to show his evenhandedness to readers of
this article who believe that it takes two to tango, thereby increasing his audience catchment net, and
accomplishing his primary objective. He also expressed his view with his hyphenated adjective
'cringeworthy' thereby accomplishing his secondary objective.
The writer begins the third paragraph seemingly complimenting Mr. Bush forming a marked
contrast of his first paragraph through massively separated antithesis. After quoting him however,
through mocking paraphrase relating to Russia, and the bare faced sarcasm of the complex,
interrogative sentence 'Why has...before' (Found, line 5, of paragraph 3) he shows once again his
'respect' for the American presidents command of the 'English' language, this mockery would appeal
to quite a large proportion of both the educated, and the masses, thereby accomplishing the writers
primary objective, as well as communicating his viewpoint, thereby accomplishing his secondary
objective. Also, the use of the concrete noun quagmire, which connotates a semantic field of rotting,
of stench and of something most people would stay away from if at all possible, due not only to it's
strike to the stench, but also the feeling of it's sloth, and the assumption that you might become
trapped in it, and become a part of such a corrupt stench yourself. Thereby lending the the writers
secondary objective.
The use of the tailing , stand alone clause, linked to the compound sentence by the coordinating
conjunction “,”clause at the end of paragraph four, 'tell it like it is' not only summarises the whole
paragraph, but also targets the whole audience concurrently, the masses by using a phrase they know
and have probably used at some point or other, and the educated, by making them feel blunt, to the
point and that they (as well as their newspaper) haven't (hasn't) lost touch with the 'badstreets'
Thereby gratifying both parties, and doing a part to increase The Times customer catchment,
thereby accomplishing the writers primary objective, if not his secondary.
The fifth paragraph is appealing to the masses through public humiliation of the BlairBush
partnership. The more educated however are probably looking beyond the slang, into the actual
objective argument hidden between the lines. The use of low frequency lexis to describe the high
frequency lexis quotations forms a marked contrast that not only makes the article more jovial, but
reflects it's difference in effect as well, in that it lends both a sense of humour as well as that of
thoroughthought. This can appeal to both levels, thereby reaching objective one, and the superb
techniques are probably the writer selfactualising himself through his craft, thereby accomplishing
his secondary objective.
The seventh paragraph is aimed again, at both sides of the audience, to inform and ingratiate the
educated side via grammatically challenged streetlingo, as well as to connotate to the other side, the
humorous implications of what the author is suggesting, in case the previous paragraph didn't quite
hammer the nail home. This accomplishes both paragraphs as it both allows the reader to identify
and probably gave the writer a chuckle or two, imagining publishing such an article in the public
domain. The ninth paragraph is similar, but also lends a practical context, to add a little more
objectivity to the mix, so as to sait the hunger of the monkeysuits.
The closing paragraph forms a solid conclusion, as would be normally expected in the times. It
weighs both sides of the argument, as well as fitting in a few linguistic features such as alliteration
and proper nouns to help it roll off the tongue, lend a practical context, and make the monkeysuits
who know who the propernouns refer to, feel knowledgeable and above the masses at whom the
article was halfaimed. This, combined with more slander in the previous paragraph, allows the
reader to finish the article, feeling higher and mightier than nations leaders, increasing the chance
that they will chose The Times again, thereby accomplishing the primary objective.
In conclusion, every paragraph has a purpose, every purpose relates to the two core objectives, so,
in my mind, this article targets it's audience well, deals with each portion well, and accomplishes
it's objectives, what more could we ask?