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FRENCH REVOLUTION By Will and Jade
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FRENCH REVOLUTION
By Will and Jade
AUDIENCE
The audience would be open minded but middle
class audience, generally conservatives
An 18th century conservative politician Edmund
Burke was credited one of the 1790s greatest
theorists, he opposed the French revolution
He probably feared the same happening in Britain
as conservatives seek tradition and social stability
PRAGMATICS
The bounty is addressed to ‘him’ which would
suggest it is expected that a man is likely to be the
audience
It also shows that men were in charge because the
audience is male and the author is male
Passive sentences do not accept responsibility they
simply state a fact for example ‘500,000 Livres
Tournois is offered’ this does not state who is
offering it
LANGUAGE
The language used was deliberately used to show the
“violence” of the revolution
The revolutionists were described as “insurgents” a word
now more commonly associated with terrorists
Prisoners were freed “captivity regained its freedom” to
show chaos
Language is poetic and abstract to emphasise unlike
modern newspapers
This poetic style maybe used because there were no
pictures in the newspaper so it had to be described
Quotes are also used to account for no pictures,
however the quotes are not reliable as there was no
recording devises and it had to be translated
LANGUAGE
LANGUAGE
Statements are very bold for example:
Also exclamatives were used often to dramatize
sentences
LANGUAGE
Longer sentences which are not as blunt as current
newspapers
GRAPHOLOGY
No headline that catches they eye unlike a modern
newspaper
Small title and no main headline to grab attention.
Not even a hint at what the article is about.
GRAMMAR
Very few modal verbs; mainly has statements
Quite limited; words like ‘the’ are heavily over
used
GRAMMAR
The use of the dash was very common; may have
been used to replace: commas, semi colons, colons
and even full stops
GRAMMAR
Capital letters are used very frequently
Used for: start of sentences, nouns and for
emphasis
