Introduction:
-I have chosen to explore how people with political power use a high level of formality within their tweets
-Compared Ed Millaband with Fearne Cotton
Tweets were picked at rnadom
Methodology:
-Why i am comparing Fearne Cotton with Ed Millaband: both British, both are of a similar age bracket, both have inluential power and are in the public eye
-Picking tweets at random (every 8 tweets) although they will be from a similar time frame (in the last couple of months)
Analysis:
-Fearne more informal (x12 informal English)
-Ed more emotive 12:7
-Fearne uses more 1st person per tweet
-Ed more persuasive/Fearne Discursive
Conclusion/Evaluation:
-Hypothesis is correct
-However, there were many limitations in this investigation one being he small pool of data
-Subjective quantifying e.g. emotive language and formality
-Comparible issues
