Analysis of a newspaper publication ‘Linguistic Gaps in English Vocabulary’ (ID:427095)

The text under discussion is a newspaper writing under the title ‘Linguistic Gaps in English Vocabulary’. In my opinion, the genre of the newspaper item under analysis can be defined as a feature article, as it possesses a number of peculiarities typical of it. First of all, the newspaper writing under discussion focuses on a single topic of certain social significance, namely, the problem of the English language related to the lack of simple, universal and socially neutral phrases used in polite everyday communication. The author’s attitude to the ...