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The article called "Observer View on Inequality in the UK," published on the newspaper The Guardian in 2022, gives a comprehensive critique of the socio-economic landscape in the United Kingdom.
It shows the nation's progress over the 70 years since Queen Elizabeth II first came to the throne.
In this essay I will focus on the linguistic features, modes of appeal, genre, and target audience of the text.
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Moreover, the article appeals to the reader's pathos. By highlighting the suffering of individuals, especially children and vulnerable populations “Rates of mental health disorders have increased from one in nine to one in six children in the last five years, but services are in crisis, with many children rejected for treatment because they do not qualify as ill enough” (Guardian, 2022), for example here it mentions sick children and tries to evoke the readers empathy.
This emotional appeal encourages readers to empathize with the victims of inequality and, potentially, to even take action themselves.
Furthermore, the article appeals to the reader's ethos. It criticizes political decisions, budget cuts, and policy choices that have made inequality even worse, and portrays these issues as injustices.
This appeals to the reader's moral, urging them to consider the ethical consequences of these decisions. The genre of this text appears to be an opinion article or political commentary.
It is giving the reader a look on a critical issue and is based on the author's perspective. This perspective also gives the article a degree of subjectivity while also relying on specific facts and evidence to support the authors arguments.
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