Language and Media
I. Typography and Orthography
Typography
Tabloids employ different typefaces on the same page to
- suggest variations of
- stress
- tone
- pace
- break the monologic uniformity, the greyness of conventional print
Phonemes
Deliberate misspellings and simplifications of spellings, drawing attention to pronunciation, e.g.
- “wot”
- “It's Sun readers wot will win it” (Sun, Tuesday, September 26, 2006)
- “Wot? No scowl then, Kate?” (Sun, Thursday, September 14, 2006)
- “Wot's Costa A&L?” (Sun, Saturday, May 06, 2006)
- “It's The Sun wot dun 'em” (Sun, Saturday, September 28, 2002)
- “yer”
- “Raise yer game, England” (Sun, Monday, October 15, 2007)
- “Benitez: Stop yer moaning” (Sun, Saturday, October 28, 2006)
- “Keep yer trousers up Darren” (Sun, Tuesday, November 16, 2004)
- “Guy: I'll break yer face” (Sun, Saturday, July 31, 2004)
Contrastive stress
Italics or underlining indicate contrastive stress, a device proper to speech (usually discouraged in schools and academic circles)