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- PURPOSE: ENTERTAIN/INFORM
- AUDIENCE: ADULTS/YOUNG ADULTS
- FORM: NEWSPAPER ARTICLE: EDITORIAL (EXPRESSIVE OF THE AUTHORS POV.
- TONE (DERISIVE) SATIRICAL- "Trusty helicopter" SARCASTIC - "bottoms kicked"
- CONTEXT: 2 British explorers went on a FAILED expedition, Where their helicopter crashed in Antarctica, then having to be rescued.
- LAYOUT: SHORT PARA (COMAPCTED W/ INFO) - ECONOMICAL WRITING STYLE.
- 1ST PARA- REFERENCE TO PAST FALIURE. THEN: QUICKLY PROVIDES 5W'S + BACKROUND INFO (QUOTATIONS)
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- (STRUCTURE POINT 1:) EMMBEDED CLAUSES- BREAKS INFO UP, SOPHISTICALED/CONTROLLED=CREDIBILITY.
- MIX OF INFORMAL/FORMAL LANG- "FARCE" - INC ACCESSIBILITY TO A RANGE OF AUDIENCES.
- (STRUCTURE POINT 2 ): NARRATIVE CHANGE "Both men are experienced adventurers..."
- SEEMINGLY HAS A CELEBRATORY TONE HOWEVER... IT'S INTRODUCED OFFHANDEDLY / MIDDLE OF EXTRACT = SEEMS DISINGENUOUS.
- PREPOSITIONAL CHOICE : "Despite"
- Undermines their success as EA / credibility At this point, W/strongly reinforced narrative of boys, an attempt to paint them postively is disengenous
- "CLAIMS" - Diminished credibility / respectability.
- (STRUCTURE POINT 3) SENTENCE OF STRUCTURE < "SHE SAID; HE SAID.." )
- CHOICE OF PRONOUNS SUBSTITUTION OF THEIR NAMES PARRELED STRUCTURE/ REPETITION Quite imitative of childish rhyme subtly underscores the immature/ child-like depiction/ Characterization of the men.
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- TITLE :EXPLORERS OR BOYS MESSING ABOUT ? EITHERWAY TAXPAYER FOOTS THE BILL."
- ????????Rhetorical question- ???????
- The title is posed as a question for the readers to consider throughout the magazine~~~~~~~~~~~ illusion (balanced/unbiasednarrative) Seemingly allows readers to decide which narrative seems most befitting.
- CONJUNTIONAL PHRASE: "Either way"
- Either way the readers choose to look at it, they will likely be brought to a negative conclusion. (really only ONE WAY to view this.
- ULTIMATLEY, answers the rhetorical question and revels the authors biases, as he influences the readers to take on a biased view of the men before the article begins .
- JUXAPOSITION - "CONFLICTING IMAGES OF BOYS/ EXPLORERS
- "EXPLORERS"(noun) - Carries positive social connotations, perhaps leading the readers to visualise esteemed individuals like Columbus/Marco Polo
- "BOYS" - (noun) - Infantilizes the otherwise professional explorers, instantly reduces the professionalism of the men and therefore their credibility , ultimately pushes the authors POV as the more reliable/credible/informed one.
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- NOUN "TAXPAYERS" - Attracts target audiences/
- The author politicises the article which arguably increases reader engagement with it as they have now been drawn into the narrative , the outcome of the article will directly effect them.
- DEF wants to stimulate outrage, as taxes increase the public concern over where their going increases, arguably the author utilises this concern to generate outrage/engagement/attention. Readers have personal stake in this . Taxes could have went to public education/ healthcare system ext.
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