Attempting to draw her readers in with anastrophic wordplay, Jo Smith’s opinion piece, ‘Chickens Range Free’ was written in response to the illegal release of a truckload of poultry on its way to the abattoir. It was published both on a website and in a Melbournian newspaper. As the politically loaded language of the gloss [...]
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Chickens Range Free
Posted in english, tagged english, language analysis on May 18, 2008 | Comments Off
Some Generic Characteristics of Written Forms
Posted in english, tagged analytical, deliberative, dialogical, epidictic, forensic, genres, imaginative, instructional, journalistic, persuasive, reflective on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The Analytical: expository and/or critical
Typically divided in three main sections (Introduction, Body, and Conclusion), analytical essays strive to achieve rational, unbiased and systematic treatments of their subject. In order to meet such aims, the personal presence of the author is usually left absent from the presentation – although in recent years, an establishment of ethos [...]
Killer Cars
Posted in english, tagged 4WD, killer cars, language analysis, persuasive language, SUV on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Language Analysis: Response to ‘Killer Cars’
Melanie Masters’ article, ‘Killer Cars – an Assault on Reason’, capitalises on recent findings which indicate that the behaviour of people who drive four-wheel drive vehicles (4WDs) as well as other automobiles, changes according to which car they are in. Bringing a number of related issues to play on these [...]
Caught in the Bluff?
Posted in english, tagged keep australia safe, language analysis, national security hotline, persuasive language, propaganda, rhetoric, terrorism on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Part A – Analysis of Language Use
Introduction
While the overt intention of The Australian Government’s ‘Keep Australia Safe’ advertisement is both to inform people of the National Security Hotline and to encourage those who have any potentially helpful information to report it, it is also fair to assume that it serves the implicit purpose of suggesting [...]
The Importance of Truthfulness
Posted in english, tagged importance of being earnest on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With regard to the Truth, two starkly contrasting philosophical positions spring to mind: on the one hand you have the idealists, and, on the other, the pragmatists.
The champion of idealism, Immanuel Kant, claimed that one should do nothing that reason determines would detrimental if everyone were to do it also. So, of lying: Kant argued [...]
