analysis: for a better understanding of the social meanings of texts

analysis: for a better understanding of the social meanings of texts. Needs to be 10 pages. Please no plagiarism. To demonstrate how discourse analysis provides a richer understanding of the socio-cultural ramifications of texts, this paper applies the process on two news items culled from separate Australian dailies, the Daily Telegraph and The Sun-Herald (see Appendices). These texts were selected for the study because of many resemblances in terms of genre, register, tenor, mode, interpersonal meanings, attitude and the social environment being portrayed. They also report on the same events and address themselves to the same type of participants or audience.

Both texts selected for this study qualify as story genre, which is hardly news that chronicles events and suggests their social relevance. This social connection was left unsaid but it is there in the register, the mode, tenor, attitude and interpersonal meanings of the sample texts.