For my coursework research topic, I am looking at two separate football magazines - one aimed at younger children and one aimed at older teenagers/adults and looking at how these two magazines use different language techniques in order to communicate to their target audience.
For my data, I have collected the most recent issue of the magazine "Match!” which is a weekly magazine released every Tuesday and is aimed at children. The magazine I am comparing it to is the most recent issue of the monthly magazine "Four Four Two" - it is released at the start of every month and is a more serious football magazine for an older, more mature audience.
There are several reasons why I have chosen to compare these magazines. Firstly, they were both released at the same time near enough so will contain similar stories. Also, I am comparing them as according to w3newspapers.com, they are both in the top 4 most read magazines in the UK.
My main question for this research is: How do these two magazines use different language techniques to communicate to their audience?
I look to differentiate these through the language used, grammar, phonology, graphology, use of humour, and initial front-cover presentation.
This theory it is based around is language and change.
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