Discursive analysis

DISCURSIVE ANALYSIS

ENTRY 1

Group: 214

Done by: Tulkinova Robiya

Checked by:Yulduz Turdiyeva

Article 1

Firstly, Sweden was one of the few European countries not to impose a compulsory coronavirus lockdown. Its strategy for tackling the outbreak has been hailed as a success by some and condemned as a failure by others. Which is it? While it is sometimes implied that Sweden didn’t have a lockdown, it did. It was just largely voluntary, with only a few legal measures such as a ban on gatherings of more than 50 people. “Voluntary restrictions work as well as legal ones,” says the architect of Sweden’s strategy, chief epidemiologist Anders Tegnell. This appears to be true, in Sweden at least. The measures did work nearly as well in getting people to change their behaviour. Adam Sheridan at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark, for instance, has used data from a bank to compare up to April in Sweden and Denmark. So, Denmark introduced a compulsory lockdown on 11  March, one of the first in Europe. Sheridan found that spending, which is an indicator of behaviour as well as economic activity, fell  by nearly as much in Sweden as in Denmark: 25 percent compared with 29 percent. Similarly, data from the Citymapper phone app, which helps people plan their routes, suggests that travel in Stockholm fell to 40 per cent of the normal level. “That’s a substantial reduction,” says Martin McKee at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, whose team did . But there were even bigger falls in other major European cities with compulsory lockdowns, to around 20 percent. So there was a substantial voluntary lockdown in Sweden, yet it wasn’t as effective in reducing the spread of the coronavirus as the compulsory lockdowns in neighbouring Denmark and Norway. Cases and deaths rose faster in Sweden, and have been slower to decline. Sweden has about 8340 confirmed cases per million people as of 17 August, compared with 1815 in Norway and 2695 in Denmark. (For the UK, it is 4690 and 16,320 for the US.).

Author of article: Michael Le Page.

Types of article: Report. Because this type of article describes things in general and report is classifying and describing general classes of phenomena. You know that this article gives many general information about the Sweden and the event of that period.

Purpose of the article: In this article, we can see that the coronavirus has led to crises and growth in certain areas of the country, based on clear facts. Through this article, we can learn a lot of statistics and compare them with other countries. This article gives us an overview of the pandemic in Switzerland, Denmark and some European countries.

Occur place: Sweden , Denmark and other European countries.

Linking words: and, that, just, as well, so, which, yet, but, for instance, whose.

Language features: present simple, past simple, present perfect and present perfect continuous tenses.

Prepositions: for, by, with, around.

Discourse markers: firstly, while, so, similarly.

Synonyms: reduce-fell-decline, gather-find, outbreak-the first.

Thinking verbs: tackling, appears, help, suggest.

Anaphoric refences: its , it their, he, it was, she, that's.

Cataphohic references: it, architect, epidemiologist.

Exophoric references: others.

Substitution: ones, did, so.

Ellipsis: to compare spending patterns, did the analysis, has got.

Forms: noun, adjective, verb, preposition, interjection.

Function: subject, predicate, determiner, object, subirdinator.

So there was a substantial voluntary lockdown in Sweden, yet it wasn’t as effective in reducing the spread of the coronavirus as the compulsory lockdowns in neighbouring Denmark and Norway