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The passage under analysis is taken from newspaper “Newsweek”. It is a newspaper (journalistic) article is written in publicistic style. This article is about reformation of the bank system. The main idea of the text is to show the readers that timely action from the side of Japan could help to built a healthy financial system. This article is impersonal and it’s function to inform the readers. The vocabulary used in this article is neutral and common literary.
Specific features are: • Special economic terms (bank loans, funds) • Abbreviation (Corp.) • Newspaper cliches () This text has headline. The main function of it’s to inform the reader briefly of what the news is to follow about. Syntactically headline is interrogative sentence. In the article we can find colloquial elements among them we find contracted form (it’s, won’t). We can find rhetorical question (Will Japan really force change on its elite institutions?). All this elements serve for render the official character of communication. To convey the main idea of article the author brings into play an abundance of expressive stylistic means and means of speech characterization.
Japan's Banks: Survival of the Fattest? Japan has wasted nearly a decade refusing to attack its mountain of bad bank loans (metaphor). It has gone from wildly underestimating the size of the festering pile (synecdoche), to confessing that it is some 77 trillion yen ($546 billion) high, to admitting - under intense recent pressure from the United States - that it is indeed a health hazard (metonymy) for the other countries in its neighborhood. Last week Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto broke out the shovels, presenting a long-awaited plan for (epithet) cleaning up the mess. Now all he has to do is get his countrymen to put their backs into the job. The key element of the plan - expected to be adopted in a special legislative session at the end of the month - is the
The passage under analysis is taken from newspaper “Newsweek”. It is a newspaper (journalistic) article is written in publicistic style. This article is about reformation of the bank system. The main idea of the text is to show the readers that timely action from the side of Japan could help to built a healthy financial system. This article is impersonal and it’s function to inform the readers. The vocabulary used in this article is neutral and common literary.
Specific features are: • Special economic terms (bank loans, funds) • Abbreviation (Corp.) • Newspaper cliches () This text has headline. The main function of it’s to inform the reader briefly of what the news is to follow about. Syntactically headline is interrogative sentence. In the article we can find colloquial elements among them we find contracted form (it’s, won’t). We can find rhetorical question (Will Japan really force change on its elite institutions?). All this elements serve for render the official character of communication. To convey the main idea of article the author brings into play an abundance of expressive stylistic means and means of speech characterization.
Japan's Banks: Survival of the Fattest? Japan has wasted nearly a decade refusing to attack its mountain of bad bank loans (metaphor). It has gone from wildly underestimating the size of the festering pile (synecdoche), to confessing that it is some 77 trillion yen ($546 billion) high, to admitting - under intense recent pressure from the United States - that it is indeed a health hazard (metonymy) for the other countries in its neighborhood. Last week Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto broke out the shovels, presenting a long-awaited plan for (epithet) cleaning up the mess. Now all he has to do is get his countrymen to put their backs into the job. The key element of the plan - expected to be adopted in a special legislative session at the end of the month - is the