Zusammenfassung der Ressource
1.2- Anthology Text- Birrell article
- Purpose
- To express an opinion
- To inform
- To emote
- To develop a debate
- To effect change
- Tone
- Personal
- Has a disabled daughter
- Opinionated
- Accusatory
- Sincere
- Passionate
- Reflective
- Mode
- Broadsheet newspaper
- Online
- Audience
- Readers of the I newspaper
and the Independent
- Fans of Birrell
- Interested in
sexuality and/or
disability
- Intelligent general readers
- Annotations
- Alliteration
- 'befuddled British embarrassment at best'
- Betrays Birrell's disappointment
- Parallelism
- 'seeking a seat in Parliament is
a joke for people who struggle
to obtain a seat on the bus'
- Bathos
- Second
person/direct
address
- 'this minority might include you'
- Forceful impact, more personal
- Present tense
- Places article in
immediate context
- First person plural
- 'we'
- Unity
- Excludes disabled people
- Contrast to 'locked out'
- Phonology
- 'discussion of diversity'
- 'talk of tolerance'
- 'stuck in the
shadows of society'
- Modal verbs
- 'should'
- Suggestions/
opinions