11 Analysis of text 14 Significant Lexico - grammatical Features
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Based on the analysis above the text is a description text since the generic structure of the text is identification description. Besides that the tense
that occurs in the text, present tense becomes the dominant one. From 5 clauses, 4 of them are present tense. The use of adjective and compound
andectives also supported the text. Text. 14 p. 179
4. 14.1 Analysis of text 14
Register analysis of yext 14 is as follow : Field
: News item reported by a newpaper Al- Riyadh Newspaper We can see from the first line of the first paragraph. Twenty
one people were killed when two vehicles collided on a highway near the Red Sea part city of Jeddah
Tenor : Journalist or news writer to public readers. We can see it
from the source of the news . Reuters Mode
: It is written text to read with no element of spoken language.It uses complete pattern and formal lexis.
TWENTY- ONE KILLED IN ROAD ACCIDENT
SAUDI ARABIA
:
Twenty one people were killed when two vehicles collided on a highway near the Red Sea port city of
Jeddah, a newspaper reported on Saturday.
Al-Riyadh newspaper said the accident occurred on Friday when a vehicle carrying 14 Yemenis and two Saudis
tried to avoid a police checkpoint by going around it, and rammed into an incoming car carrying five passengers from
Saudi Arabia , Egypt and Sudan.
Around 4000 people die each year in road accidents in
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4. 14.2 Communicative Purpose
From the register I can determine that the communicative purpose of the text is to inform the readers that there was an accident on a highway
near the Red Sea Port of Jeddah. Twenty one people were killed in the accident. It is informed that the accident occured on Friday when a
vehicle carrying 14 Yemenis and 2 Saudis tried to avoid a police checkpoint. In the last paragraph the writer mentioned that around 4000
people die each year in road accidents.