Rhetorical Analysis: First Of All Tom Law

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Already in the 15th century England was a very powerful country that colonized big parts of the world. This phenomenon is called imperialism and it was primarily founded to gain power and control, but also for political and economical reasons. The strong and larger countries took control over the smaller countries. When a country was colonized it lost its uniqueness and it was forced to live by the circumstances of England. The British Empire replaced countries languages with English. This was seen as a sign of weakness and it created a sense of inferiority and not least shame towards the “destroyed” countries. This have had a large impact on the citizens, for instance: Tom Law who lives in Wales, is furious and he has written the article: …show more content…

This rhetorical question catches the reader’s attention, and makes them wonder and discuss with themselves. He makes up an example of the same situation that is happening to Wales, but with German and English. So German is to take over the English language. He mentions in his example that middle-class parents were looking to do the best for their children and therefore they would have to learn to speak German. When mentioning personal experiences like this, he appeals to pathos, which are the reader’s feelings but also to ethos which appealing to experiences. The reader’s can relate to the situation the Welsh people are going through and the fact that Tom Law himself was one of the “exposed” ones, who were taught at an English school, makes him seems more as a reliable writer, because he has been through the same situation and he knows what is like. As a reader you will have sympathy with him. The tone of the article is quite irritable. Tom Law is frustrated, and when he talks about the United Kingdom Independence party, he addresses them as: “Those loony UKIP types”. It is a rather condescending way of referring to the party on, because he uses word as “loony”, which means crazy, and also the use “those types” makes the reader understand, that they are not nice types, or at least Tom Law does not think so. Throughout the article Tom Law do get a little bit sarcastic in his expressions, for instance: “It’s hard to give a toss about language when you’re an English speaker. Because losing your language is not something you’ll ever have to worry about; thanks to the glory days of the British Empire”. He does actually not see the British Empire as “glory days”, it is other Englishmen who does. This makes the Englishmen seem like fools as he longer into the article mentions the negative aspects of England. Lastly he uses imagery, an example is: “The Welsh language

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