An illustration: analyzing political texts
I come now to the analysis of two sample texts. The one I shall begin with is the Foreword written by the former British Prime Minister Tony Blair to the Department of Trade and Industry’s White Paper on Competitiveness (DTI, 1998 – see Appendix 1). K shall organize my comments according to the stages and steps listed in the Methodology section, but I have just been effectively discussing aspects of Stage 1 so I shall keep my comments on it brief.