Comparison Between Texts

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Comparison between texts, page 74 and 75 By Bregje van de Weijer, 5V Text 3.1: ‘Inside Bitama’s camp’, The New Vision, 29th October 2010 Text 3.2: ‘GOP security aide among 5 arrested in bugging affair’, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Washington Post, 19th June 1972 Although the subject of both texts is remotely different, they contain a lot of similarities. Text 3.1, about gossipy stories assaulting Paddy Bitama, an opposition candidate of the president of Uganda, uses mainly vague language like “about 100 posters”, “a convoy of vehicles” and “a man who was having lunch”, where no details are given about who or what exactly. Probably the journalists writing this text did know those details but just “forgot” to mention them. Text 3.2, in contrast to the first text, tells the reader explicitly who broke into the building. However, when it comes to the actual action of the burglary, the quotations suddenly become unclear. “An aide to Dole” is not really a credible source, or is it? Furthermore text 3.1 uses far more euphemisms and emotive language than the other text, such as: “In a dust of light moments” and “People’s president” (euphemisms), “Got off the list” and “Kapere was forced” (emotive language). Yet, text 3.2 uses some, like “The bugging incident” (euphemism) and “We deplore action of this kind in or out of politics” (emotive language). All in all, their main common ground is the credibility, because every quick analysis can state that these texts are certainly not the whole

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