E304: Linguistic Comparison Report: Airbus Industry News Articles

This report presents a linguistic analysis comparing two news articles that discuss the Airbus industry. The analysis draws on the concepts of grammar, cohesion, and coherence as discussed in the course materials. The report explores the textual and interpersonal meanings conveyed in the articles, with particular attention to the use of active and passive voice, formal and informal language, and the role of field, tenor, and mode. The student compares the articles, examining how the different linguistic choices impact the presentation of information and the relationship between the writers and the readers. The report also references relevant academic sources to support the analysis. The report provides a comprehensive linguistic comparison of the two articles, offering insights into how language shapes the meaning and impact of news reporting.

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Comparison between the text books
The two books namely Managing Communication flow Textual meaning-making and
Creating relationships Interpersonal meaning-making helps to understand the proper usage of
grammar within daily communication. The former book begins with the orientation of ‘nouns’
and ‘nominalization’. The first chapter helps the readers to understand the organizing of a text or
book. The chapter introduces the concepts of mode and metafunction infused within a text (Böck
and Pachler 2013). Textual metafunction is being understood with the deep looking at the
lexicogrammatical resources. Hence, the chapter introduces the importance of clause from the
textual perception that results into building various language development. Along with this, the
chapter provides the important role of language in daily communication. The concept of
packaging is delivered within this book. It is the way to measure the effectiveness of a text’s
ability to communicate the message to the readers or the reviewers. The book skillfully provide
various textual examples including ‘The Sea’ and ‘May in Ayemenem’. The second chapter of
this book delves into the discussion of lexical cohesion. The chapter provides ample example to
analyze the features for what a text can be considered as cohesive and coherent. Hence, the
chapter solely dedicated to differentiate the two terms cohesive and coherent. The book then
continues to develop knowledge on grammatical cohesion. It is the way to weave group of
meanings together. And the final chapter of this book helps to understand the thematic type of
any text. The theme is the process of organizing ideas and information together. The idea is
delivered with two versions of the book ‘Mary Reibey’ with the theme of history infused within
the entire story. On the other hand, the theme of biographical stories are different from those of
the academic text.

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The second book introduces the concept of importance of interaction with others. The
first chapter is reflects the relationship of a writer and the readers for whom the text was
intended. The pillar of this relationship is some linguistic feature used by the writer considering
the efficiency level of the readers. This chapter introduces three aspects of tenor that includes –
social roles and relative social status, social distance, and positioning of the speaker and the
writer. The second chapter of the book describes the definition of a text (Leedham 2014). It is
demonstrated with three examples of texts. Here, the chapter provide the two aspects of tenor –
social roles and relative social status. Various speech functions and addressing terms helps to
strengthen the social role and build a strong relation among the community. The difference
between informal and formal language should be kept in mind regarding the speech function and
interacting with the society. The third chapter introduces the functions of positioning and
persuading. The chapter helps to understand that absence of modal resources can impact on the
positioning of the readers and listeners. There should be an exploring level of modalisation to
understand the semantic space among the polar meanings of the terms ‘yes’ and ‘no’. The final
chapter of this book, combines all the concepts of mode and tenor. Here the readers can
understand the depth of functioning of language and its link with meanings and purpose. Here
the chapter introduced the two different concepts of interpersonal metafunction and textual
metafunction. Hence, combining both the concepts of two books it can be said that there are
three key aspects of context for language occurrence that includes field, mode, and tenor.
Comparison between the two articles
Both the two news articles provides information about Airbus industry. The Gulf news
article titled – ‘Airbus nears settlement of bribery cases’ informs about nearing an agreement
with the authorities of UK to resolve the allegation of bribery that kept the European

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manufacturer of airplane industry into shadows (Gulfnews.com, 2020). The allegations includes
the usage of intermediaries for securing the orders of jet. It was an initial practice the airbus
industry was relied to achieve parity with the US rival. The second article titled – ‘Airbus to Pay
$4 Billion to settle corruption Inquiry’ informs about the penalization posed on the France,
Britain, and United States for removing a legal hurdle in competition with the rival Boeing
(Nytimes.com, 2020). After four years of investigation between 2004 and 2016, the authorities of
all the three countries are observed with bribing the public officials for purchasing of planes and
satellites within various country.
According to the knowledge developed by the books, both the news articles are based on
similar subject matter. Both the texts reflects the story of allegations made on different airbus
industry. From the lexicogrammatical perspective, the first article is an example of coherent text.
The news article is based on an argument on resolving the posed allegation on the authority of
British, France, and US. On the other hand, the second article is an example of cohesive one. It
brings the argument of the first article in a general conclusion. The allegation posed against the
authority of the three countries resulted into penalization of $4 billion. For a more intended
grammatical analysis the voice used in the first article is generally passive in tone. On the other
hand, the second article of New York Times is more active and formal in tone. Rather it can be
said that, in both the articles the mixed use active and passive voice. The formal tone is required
for both the news articles as it is a type of business writing. The message of the writing is
provided for the consumers. The information is very important as is will impact the interpersonal
relationship between the consumers and the airbus industry of the France, Britain, and United
States. Additionally, both the articles provide ample scope of exploring the field, tenor, and
modals of infused within the text.

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References
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meaning-making, and learning in the work of Gunther Kress. Routledge.
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Leedham, M., 2014. Chinese students' writing in English: implications from a corpus-driven
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Nytimes.com (2020). Airbus to Pay $4 Billion to Settle Corruption Inquiry. [online]
Nytimes.com. Available at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/business/airbus-corruption-
settlement.html [Accessed 21 Feb. 2020].