Discourse Analysis Features of Context
Name: Duong Hong Anh
Group: 06.1.E1
Date: 01/02/2010
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Discourse Analysis Assignment 1
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Features of context 1. Addressor: a BBC journalist 2. Addressee: the US readers 3. Audience: online readers 4. Topic: US to resume shortly Haiti medical evacuation flights 5. Setting: place: in a column of online BBC newspaper; time: February 2nd, 2010 6. Channel: writing 7. Code: Standard American English 8. Message-form: journal article 9. Event: BBC news 10. Key: informative, updated 11. Purpose: to inform about actions of the USA government to help Haiti and some other related issues.
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US to resume shortly Haiti medical evacuation flights
The United States will resume within hours emergency evacuation flights for critically injured Haitian quake victims, the White House has said.
The airlifts stopped last Wednesday because of what Washington described as "logistical issues".
Doctors warned scores of people would die if the flights did not resume soon.
Meanwhile, some of the Haitian children identified as orphans by a group of Americans who were taking them abroad may have parents, it has emerged.
Haiti imposed new controls on the movement of children following the 12 January earthquake that killed up to 200,000 people.
Officials fear that orphans are now particularly vulnerable to being abducted and sold for adoption.
Also on Sunday, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) began a large-scale aid distribution at 16 sites across Haiti's capital, aiming to feed two million people.
Only women will be allowed to collect the 25kg (55lb) rice ration, enough to feed a family for two weeks.
'On track'
White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement on Sunday evening: "Having received assurances that additional capacity exists both here and among our international partners,
Group: 06.1.E1
Date: 01/02/2010
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Discourse Analysis Assignment 1
Text:
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Features of context 1. Addressor: a BBC journalist 2. Addressee: the US readers 3. Audience: online readers 4. Topic: US to resume shortly Haiti medical evacuation flights 5. Setting: place: in a column of online BBC newspaper; time: February 2nd, 2010 6. Channel: writing 7. Code: Standard American English 8. Message-form: journal article 9. Event: BBC news 10. Key: informative, updated 11. Purpose: to inform about actions of the USA government to help Haiti and some other related issues.
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US to resume shortly Haiti medical evacuation flights
The United States will resume within hours emergency evacuation flights for critically injured Haitian quake victims, the White House has said.
The airlifts stopped last Wednesday because of what Washington described as "logistical issues".
Doctors warned scores of people would die if the flights did not resume soon.
Meanwhile, some of the Haitian children identified as orphans by a group of Americans who were taking them abroad may have parents, it has emerged.
Haiti imposed new controls on the movement of children following the 12 January earthquake that killed up to 200,000 people.
Officials fear that orphans are now particularly vulnerable to being abducted and sold for adoption.
Also on Sunday, the UN's World Food Programme (WFP) began a large-scale aid distribution at 16 sites across Haiti's capital, aiming to feed two million people.
Only women will be allowed to collect the 25kg (55lb) rice ration, enough to feed a family for two weeks.
'On track'
White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement on Sunday evening: "Having received assurances that additional capacity exists both here and among our international partners,