Activity 2, handout 2
Read the text below, which is an extract from the speech delivered by Tony Blair to his party followers at the Royal Albert Hall after being assured of a large Labour majority in the general election, May 1997.
How is language being constructed here in order to convey a political message? Pay particular attention to the structures you have just been studying, but also focus on any other aspects of language you have learned about during the course of this book—for example, the use of pronouns, metaphors, sound patterning.
Tony Blair
This vote tonight has been a vote for the future, for a new era of politics in Britain, so that we can put behind us the battles of this past century and address the battles for the new century. It will be a Britain renewed, where through education, technology and enterprise we equip our country for future in a different and new economic world.
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