What Are Migrants?
For this written task, I have chosen to write a letter to the Independent Press Standard Organizations to express my thoughts and concerns about the use of complete awful and dehumanizing language to describe immigrants in the British Press. It is based on Part 2 of the Literature & Language course.
Despite the word “Migrant” was generally perceived as being the most neutral term without any negative implication, the way it was perceived had been altered due to the way the government officials particularly David Cameron and other controversial British writers such as Katie Hopkin, who had depicted migrants as threat that drain on resources.
Although the way officials and writers have categories “Migrants” in a dehumanizing way, this assignment aims to focus on the impact the use of language by officials and writers had on the connotation of the word “Migrants”, from being originally perceived as a word that implies positive connotations to a word that implies negative connotation, rather than merely criticizing the use of dehumanizing and awful language of government officials and writers. …show more content…
Since letter could be written in either formal and informal, it allows me to write in a more formal and neutral tone without being biased as unlike opinion columns, letter would not present a degree of political and emotional bias, therefore as my objective is to drive them to reflect rather than criticizing, writing in a more formal tone would be more effective as they would be more willing to
Despite the word “Migrant” was generally perceived as being the most neutral term without any negative implication, the way it was perceived had been altered due to the way the government officials particularly David Cameron and other controversial British writers such as Katie Hopkin, who had depicted migrants as threat that drain on resources.
Although the way officials and writers have categories “Migrants” in a dehumanizing way, this assignment aims to focus on the impact the use of language by officials and writers had on the connotation of the word “Migrants”, from being originally perceived as a word that implies positive connotations to a word that implies negative connotation, rather than merely criticizing the use of dehumanizing and awful language of government officials and writers. …show more content…
Since letter could be written in either formal and informal, it allows me to write in a more formal and neutral tone without being biased as unlike opinion columns, letter would not present a degree of political and emotional bias, therefore as my objective is to drive them to reflect rather than criticizing, writing in a more formal tone would be more effective as they would be more willing to