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Task C: Tenor

Below are two short extracts (headline and the first sentence) about the same news item (i.e. same domain) from two different newspapers (i.e. same medium and domain). One is from a UK tabloid newspaper and the other from a broadsheet. Hence the register differences will relate to tenor - what section of the community the newspapers are aimed at.

(a) Identify which of the extracts is from the tabloid, and which from the broadsheet and
(b) how you know (i.e. what linguistic features are associated with the tenor of each medium).

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Text 1	PENSION AXE VOW
Text 1	UNIONS yesterday threatened a wave of strikes to stop bosses axing workers' pension schemes.
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Text 2	TUC warns of strikes over pensions crisis
Text 2	BRITAIN'S EMPLOYERS were put on alert yesterday that employees were increasingly prepared to take industrial action to defend their pensions, now the single most important issue at work.
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