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
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