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.