Indledning
In the United States of America, poverty is a huge problem and a concern for many people, but the Trump administration claims that poverty do not exist. In the article “The Trump Administration Says Poverty Is Over.
They’re Lying .” written by Bryce Covert, whois an independent journalist who writes about the economy , she tries to verbalize the poverty in the country as a subject that has not been taking good care of.
The article speaks about how the Trump administration has claimed the poverty as a problem that already have been solved and Bryce Covert give one’s opinion about how wrong of a statement that is.
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Uddrag
To achieve this, Bryce Covert primarily uses the appeal form pathos . With the use of pathos, she tries to get in touch with the readers’ feelings and emotions.
She mostly describes President Trump and the administration as if they have no sympathy for other people and negative like:
“If the Trump administration really thinks poverty doesn’t exist in the U.S., they should tell that to the 15.6 million American families who were food insecure for at least part of 2016 .”
This exact sentence gives the reader sympathy with the poor people, which helps Bryce Covert to put Trump in a bad light, even if it is not what Trump wants.
She provokes certain feelings by mentioning basic needs for a human, and by using negative connotations , she gets the reader’s attention in her favor especially when she speaks about a sensitive subject such as children:
“But even a small bout of cutting back on nutrition has huge health impacts, particularly on children. ”
Besides uses pathos and negative connotations against Trump, Bryce Covert also encodes11 the message, in a way of using a high, but understandable style of language as a linguistic feature, which makes sense compared to the wanted receiver of the article.
She uses words as “subsist”,“pitiful” and “expense” which makes the article harder to read and understand for the ones without a higher education.
It is mainly a written language, but there are also parts of spoken language when she for instance writes “That’s not” instead of “That is not.”
Furthermore, the article is written in a persuasive language12, which is seen by the way Bryce Covert is trying to convince the reader to her claim, which in this case is that there is still poverty in the United States of America even if Trump not thinks there is.
The article also seems more persuasive because of the use of statistics, for instance: “In Maryland, only 8 percent managed to rise above the poverty line13 .
”By using many different statistics, it also makes the article more reliable, which is another appeal form that she uses, ethos.
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