Explore the similarities and differences in the ways that Text A and Text B use language

Text A and B differ significantly in purpose, with Text A primarily used for entertainment while Text B demonstrates itself as informative. This contrasts relates to the genre of each text, with A being an online news article and the other being an Official Olympic report. Furthermore, they were published over 100 years apart, which offers some explanation for the significant differences found between the texts. An example of a notable difference would be of register, with Text B implementing more formal language and complex sentence structures such as ‘Swinging into the straight……nipped through on the inside’. Alternatively, Text A makes use of more accessible language with simpler sentence structures like the compound sentence ‘Adeoye also managed….forget this in a hurry’. Text B mostly makes use of the first person singular pronoun ‘I’ whereas Text A’s use of a pronoun is in the first person inclusive form ‘we’. With regards to typography both texts make use of the Majuscule form, in Text A being used for emphasis e.g. ‘RUN IN THE WRONG LANE’ and in Text B being used for formal headings and names e.g. ‘DAVID SCOTT DUNCAN’. In contrast, similarities between the texts include the use of subject specific lexis, exemplified with ‘Four Hundred Metres Flat Race’ in Text B and ‘sprinting etiquette’ in Text A. This device is significant as it helps to consolidate the Olympic theme throughout both extracts.