The Goal-Achievement Pattern in Articles about Politics

Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2,0, University of Graz (Anglistik), course: Textlinguistik, language: English, abstract: This seminar paper contains a linguistic analysis of argumentation-patterns in newspaper articles on politics. Reports on the Iranian nuclear program are critically examined, paying particular attention to the triangle language-poltics-media. Hoey's Goal-Achievement-Pattern has been employed as the main methodology.