ABSTRACT
This chapter is concerned with the exploration of texts and discourses within the parameters of the models. It focuses on Fairclough’s three-dimensional model. Starting with the headline so that the reader can gain a fairly accurate idea of what the whole article (Daily Mail) will be about. In a strategy mirrored throughout the article, the actions of these foreign crooks are lent facticity by the inclusion of no less than five sets of statistics, emphasizing the scale of the supposed problem of criminality amongst immigrant groups. Despite acknowledgement later in the article that there are no details regarding offences or sentences, the repetition of rape and murder strongly implies that many of the 146,100 notifications refer to very serious crimes. The crime figures in the article are also figuratively endowed with activity and immediacy, on two occasions they are fuelling fears over the European Union in an article published only months before Britain’s vote to withdraw from the alliance.
