As we can see the first text which is the newspaper article “What Is The Janlok Pal Bill And Why Is It Important?” this text is written by an editor of the NDTV on the 16th August, this article gives us a brief note about what is the janlok pal bill it gives us facts and information about the janlok pal bill; it tells us how the janlok pal bill is drafted and by whom. Basically it is a brief note on the Jan lok pal bill .some basic facts which this article gives us are that how Anna Hazare went on a fast and started the anti-corruption campaign, the article tells your ten features of the janlok pal bill it gives us quotes of people. Coming to the language used in this article it is a formal language as it briefly explains the janlok pal bill and about its features and is a newspaper article, the audience the writer is targeting are the commoners who read newspapers, as it shows common subject which will be easy to relate for the commoners and it uses simple language understood by the commoners, what do you think is the main purpose of the text? I feel the writer’s main purpose for writing this article is to enlighten the readers about the facts of the bill and spread social awareness among people. The tone used in the text is a very formal one as the writer is expressing this to the general public and it is a newspaper article which delivers facts. The article has a formal register as it is directed to the common people as it uses language which does not contain slangs or abbreviations. Now we have discussed the features of this texts lets move on to the next one!
As we know that the second text is a blog article titled “Lokpal Bill, It won’t work, mate!” ,There exist many differences between the two chosen texts, in terms of audience, purpose, tone, register and so on As mentioned earlier. As we know that the newspaper article was a more informative piece of writing whereas the blog article is, as its title suggests, a little less informative but expressing ones views on a topic. As the title suggests suggests that the blogger is going to express his/her own views about the given situation. As we know that the target audience of this blog article is entirely different as compared to that of the newspaper article; this blog article is targeted at youngsters and anyone who has access to the Internet and are socially active on blogging sites. Since it aims mostly to the younger population of India, the blogger has used an casual tone while expressing his/her views and as we can see that the blogger has used slangs and abbreviations throughout the article .Since the younger generation in India are more familiar with slang language and hybrid versions of English, the youngsters of India can relate more to this article than the newspaper article. This may be one of the reasons why the author has chosen to write a blog article. The main purpose of the writer is to express his/her views about the Janlokpal bill and to collect people who share his/her own views about the same and to gain support to oppose the creation of the Janlokpal bill. The blogger uses a variety of tones throughout the article; sometimes we can detect hints of sarcasm and otherwise we can also detect various other tones such as proud and firm and this gives the reader an understanding of the author. One thinks of the blogger as one who has strong opinions about a variety of things and that he/she may be close-minded. Also we realize that the blogger is also very firm in his decisions and so on.
Now as we have finished discussing the features of the two texts we can say These two texts are of two exactly different kind of writing and we can evidently see that how language plays an important role in distinguishing these texts, the language used in the first one makes it formal as it is a newspaper article and the language used in the second text make it very informal as it makes use of slangs and abbreviations ,as we know that the difference in language was because the audience in both the text were different therefore the formal language would appeal more to newspaper reading common public rather than socially active and internet user-friendly people who use blogging sites.