Articles I'm Using

SUN ARTICLE HYPERLINK

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3740546/Cops-battle-new-riots-across-London.html

TELEGRAPH HYPERLINK

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/8690199/London-riots-police-lose-battle-as-lawlessness-erupts.html

The Sun

The Sun is a tabloid newspaper, making it traditionally smaller than a broadsheet and includes ‘tabloid journalism’. From researching on the internet I found that tabloid journalism focuses on scandal, such as celebrity gossip, television presenters, thrilling crime stories, football and sex and that this is what the Sun follows. This is not the case for all tabloid newspapers. The Independent for example is a British morning newspaper originating as a broadsheet in 1986 but later becoming a tabloid newspaper in 2003, calling itself a compact newspaper. According to Wikipedia the Independent is left-wing, however it does not tie itself to any particular party.

The Sun newspaper fits under the stereotypical opinion of a tabloid newspaper and Wikipedia says‘‘The Sun has been involved in a number of controversies in its history, including its coverage of the Hillsborough football stadium disaster, falsely accusing Elton John of having had sexual relationships with rent boys, and its attitude towards mental health issues and homosexuality.’’ whilst internet bloggers  from Yahoo view The Sun to be read by ‘’the white van man’’ ‘’torie chavs’’ and ‘’idiots’’. Taking the article‘Cops Battle Riots Across London’ by Laura Caroe the grammar is basic. Simple demonstrative sentences are used which are single independent clauses, such as ‘acting Scotland Yard Commissioner Tim Goodwin has asked the public to clear London’s streets’ and ‘more rampages broke out in Brixton last night’. The phonological features of rhythm and alliteration feature heavily in this article. ‘’Huge fires are burning out of control in Croydon, South London, with police struggling to maintain control.’’ There is alliteration with ‘control’, ‘Croydon’ and ‘control’ and there is a rhythm to the phrase ‘control in Croydon’. I think that this use of phonology links to sociolinguistics, the sociolinguistics used by The Sun fit with the social group whom read The Sun. It is relevant towards its target audience.

The Sun’s report on the London riots is dramatic with emotive language, high levels of bright graphology, slang and pragmatics. There are 19 photos in its 1,203 word article, each followed by a caption with highly emotive and expressive language such as ‘terrifying’, ‘inferno’, ‘destruction’ and ‘blaze’. Each word is followed by an ellipsis then a statement, such as with ‘blaze … remains of torched car in Hackney’. This is as though it is spoken discourse. The ellipsis adds a pause to the reading which makes the statement seem bolder and more significant, again adding drama to the article and a kind of thrill which The Sun seeks to give to its audience.

A use of slang gives the article an informal feel, instead of using ‘police’ the title includes ‘Cops’. Straight away this lowers the reading level. This simple language suggests that the audience is of this lower reader level which is what I expected to be included in The Sun. It is casual language and similar to what would be expected from a magazine. The title is in bold and is in sans serif. It is immediately next to a brightly coloured photograph which includes red and yellow colouring. This use of graphology grabs the reader’s attention and draws them in making them want to read the report.

The title is followed by two sub headings which both sum up what the article includes. ‘London’ is included in the first title, ‘Birmingham and Liverpool’ are included in the sub heading and in the subtitle ‘LONDON’ is repeated in upper case lettering. This will have been done to attract a wider variety of readers from different places as they are more likely to buy the paper if somewhere local to them, hence the mention of 3 differing places in the titles.

Methodology

To do my investigation I will be using articles from The Suns and The Telegraphs website. I will be collecting one report on the London Riots from each site. I have chosen these two newspapers as one is a tabloid and one a broadsheet so I expect there to be significant amount of details to analyse, compare and contrast.

I intend to make a study sheet so they can be compared easily, however I will use the internet sites to collect my data for the two articles. The articles will be ones which were written at a similar time to make sure that they have the same amount of occurrences to report on. I will look at and analyse a current edition of The Sun and of The Telegraph looking at similar and dissimilar features of language such as:

                Register – If the language is appropriate for the audience. Formal, political, teen mag.

Pragmatics - Social conventions, context, levels of formality social conventions

Graphology – The way it looks with images, serif, sans serif and layout

I have chosen ‘Cops Battle Riots Across London’ by Laura Caroe written on August 9^th 2011 from The Sun and ‘London Riots: police lose battle as lawlessness erupts’ by Mark Hughes and Tom Whitehead written on August 8^th 2011 from The Telegraph. The Sun being a tabloid has an audience of stereotypically less educated people with a lower level reading ability who are less interested in politics, finance, business and economy whilst The Telegraph is a broadsheet newspaper stereotypically read by an audience with a higher level reading ability who are right-winged Torie supporters. 

Introduction

Introduction

Riots began in London, August 2011 in Tottenham, as protests began after police shot dead a local man. The riots spread through England and spanned over several days and nights. In this investigation I am going to look at the frameworks of language used from two different newspaper articles reporting on the London Riots. The newspapers I am going to use are going to be The Sun and The Telegraph. I am going to look at and compare the register, semantics, audience and purpose used in both these papers.

By comparing articles from these two newspapers I expect to find a large difference between the register, audience and pragmatics. I think that the lexical field and purpose however to be similar as both papers are covering the same topic and will have a similar purpose, to inform, perhaps entertain and report events. I think that the register of the Telegraph will be formal whilst The Sun, which  is generally read by lower class who are more interested in gossip than politics or business and finance, often not having much of an interest  in economic current events, to have an informal register with simple language and the use of slang

Methodology

Really stuck at how to get my methodology to more than a couple of sentences...
I'm using two articles from two websites.....this is what i have so far. 

To do my investigation I will be using articles from the newspapers website, collecting one report on the London Riots from each site. They will be ones which were written at a similar time to make sure that they have the same amount of occurrences to report on.

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Introduction

For this investigation I am going to look at the frameworks of language used from two different newspaper articles reporting on the London Riots, August 2011. The newspapers I am going to use are going to be The Sun and The Telegraph. I am going to look at and compare the register, semantics, audience and purpose used in both these papers. By comparing articles from these two newspapers I expect to find a large difference between the register, audience and pragmatics. I think that the lexical field and purpose however to be similar as both papers are covering the same topic and will have a similar purpose, to inform, perhaps entertain and report events. I think that the register of the Telegraph will be formal as it is stereotypically read by an audience with a higher reader level who are high middle class or upper class tory supporters. The Sun is generally read by lower class readers who are more interested in gossip than politics or business and finance, often not having much of an interest  in economic current events hence I expect the register to be informal and the language to be simpler and with the use of slang.

IDEA CHANGE

I am now going to look at the language in articles from the telegraph and articles from the sun on the London Riots 2011

Intro and Methodology

Intro

The aim of my investigation is to identify the variation of language use between top chefs Gordon Ramsay and Jamie Oliver and why they use different language. Looking at the reasoning for language variation and if they are trying to achieve something and if it is successful or unsuccessful.

I've chosen these two chefs because they are both often cropping up in the public eye and in the media making them very well-known with strong reputations. On one hand there is professional Michelin star chef who works serving food in a top end restaurant who is under huge amounts of pressure and constantly swears, the f-word being what he’s famous for. On the other hand there is a young home cooking TV chef whose aim is to motivate and influence people to eat healthily and make a change to food internationally.

I think that I will discover that the language differences between Gordon and Oliver are many because they are trying to achieve very different things. They may have similar professions but they work in completely different ways, hence this being reflected in their use of language.

Methodology

I will be using a selection of YouTube clips to collect the data I need to do my investigation. I’ll be using roughly two minute sections of a Gordon Ramsay clip and of a Jamie Oliver clip, turning them into transcripts. The videos I use will be of similar situations; including both chefs being upset about something and how they deal with the stress they are under.

Ramsay has varying shows. He has Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares, Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape and Gordon Ramsay’s F-Word. I will be using a section from Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares as I think it will be most relevant and contain more politically incorrect language due to the amount of stress he is under.

With Jamie Oliver I will be using clips from Jamie’s Food Revolution. I expect there to be some similarities of language to that in Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares as Jamie is talking to people rather than just a camera, as he often does in other shows. In Jamie’s Food Revolution he is under a considerably larger amount of stress.

I expect there to be quite a large number of differences between their language and mannerisms. They deal with different situations within their profession and when they're dealing with similar situations they handle things very differently to one another.

Ramsay Transcript I Am Going To Use

Kitchen Nightmares USA - Woman Goes ABSOLUTELY INSANE On Gordon Ramsay)   - from 1.23 to 3.23 [2minutes]

Gordon: Have a look in there(3) Look at the state of what they’re cooking out of (2) ‘ave you any idea what’s in what box (.) uuuuuuuh (.) what goes where (2) over here you’ve got a little uh back of chicken carcases (1) oh and in this one here you’ve got some raw chicken (,) cooked pork there (.) This is you with 30 years in the business (.) yee hold on It gets worse (3) I don’t know what that is (2) like a cheese of summing (1) but what is that there (.) what is that (.) what (.) you lost for words (.) the place is a filthy mess (2) look (,) what is that (.) lamb bones (3) and who’s organizing this (2) you haven’t got a head chef (4)

Abby (Owner): Jimmy is my head chef (.)

Gordon: So we have a head chef (4) before (1) you weren’t (2) ready to confirm he was the head chef (.) yet all of a sudden we find all this mess down here and he’s appointed (5)

Abby (Owner): Rico why don’t we just sell the place (.) and just get outa this business

Gordon: why don’t we what (.)

Abby (Owner): I was talking to Rico this has nothing to do with you

Gordon: that has nothing to do with me (?)

Abby (Owner): No

Gordon: excuse me (2) what do think I’m doing (.) I mean I mean I’m (.) I’m trying (2)

 Abby (Owner): your being a beep beep   [fucking cunt]

 Gordon: hold on hold on a minute here (.) you’re calling me a beep beep     [fucking cunt]

 Abby (Owner): yee I am

Gordon: You stuck up precious little bitch (.) don’t you dare

 Abby (owner): oh hear we go

Gordon: listen (.) hey (,) listen to me

Abby (owner): I’m not going to listen to you

 Gordon: here (,) your in denial

Abby (owner): I’m not in denial

 Gordon: yes you are (.) yes you are (.) just fucking accept it

Abby (owner):  fuck you (.)

Gordon: oh walk out again

 Abby (owner): yes I am (.) fuck you

Gordon: there you go (.) flip the bird (3) that’s your attitude and that’s your partner (.) I’m really sorry (.) but this wasn’t like this before I got here (2) she’s deluded that woman

 Abby (owner): you aren’t insane (.) your like

 Gordon:                                               yea blame me all you want easiest excuse is you’re insane

 Abby (owner): I’m not insane (.) you’re insane

Gordon: you can’t even admit it’s fucking true

Abby (owner): your insane (2) that refrigerator was not like that before you got here

Gordon: you’re in denial (.) flip out again

Abby (owner): I would never allow that refrigerator to get like that.

Gordon: and those bones (.) those mouldy lamb bones (.)

 Abby (owner): I don’t even talk to my staff like this (.) why don’t you get the fuck out of my restaurant

Gordon:  do you want me to go (.)

Abby (owner): I would love you to go (.) get the fuck out of my restaurant please

Gordon: you are so in denial (.) you need therapy

Abby (owner): you’re a disgrace to this industry (3) fuck you and get out of my restaurant (.) are you still here

Gordon: not now guys please (4) please please

Abby (owner): fuck him