Discourse Analysis Features of Context

Name Duong Hong Anh Group 06. 1. E1 Date 01/02/2010 Discourse Analysis Assignment 1 Text pic pic Features of context 1. Addressor a BBC journalist 2. Addressee the US readers 3. Audience online readers 4. Topic US to resume soon Haiti medical excreting flights 5. Setting place in a column of online BBC stark nakedspaper time February 2nd, 2010 6. passage writing 7. Code Standard American English 8. Message-form journal article . Event BBC news 10. signalise informative, updated 11. Purpose to inform about actions of the USA g everywherenment to help Haiti and some other related issues. US to resume shortly Haiti medical evacuation flights The United States lead resume within hours emergency evacuation flights for critic aloney injured Haitian quake victims, the White family line has said. The airlifts halt last Wednesday because of what Washington expound as logistical issues. Doctors warned scores of people would die if the flights did not resume soon.Meanwhile, some of t he Haitian children place as orphans by a group of Americans who were fetching them abroad may have parents, it has emerged. Haiti imposed new controls on the movement of children following the 12 January earthquake that killed up to 200,000 people. Officials fear that orphans are now particularly vulnerable to being abducted and sold for adoption. Also on Sunday, the UNs World Food Programme (WFP) began a large aid distribution at 16 sites across Haitis capital, aiming to feed two million people.Only women will be allowed to collect the 25kg (55lb) rice ration, enough to feed a family for two weeks. On plow White House spokesman Tommy Vietor said in a statement on Sunday evening Having received assurances that additional subject exists both here and among our internationalistic partners, we determined that we can resume these critical flights. The flights are on track to resume in the next 12 hours. Patients are being identified for transfer, doctors are making positive(pr edicate) that it is safe for them to fly, and we are preparing specific in-flight paediatric care aboard the aircraft where needed. Mr Vietor said the US government had worked with international partners, NGOs and US states to increase capacity to treat the Haitian patients. Hundreds of patients with spinal injuries, burns and other wounds have been flown on US military planes to America since the quake. Most of them have been treated in Florida. But the US halted the supposed mercy flights on Wednesday. A White House spokesman told the BBC the move was due to logistical issues, not over medical costs as had been reported earlier.Last week, Florida Governor Charlie Crist warned President Barack Obamas administration that the states healthcare brass is quickly r severallying saturation, especially in the area of high-level trauma care. Mr Crist also asked the federal government to activate the National Disaster Medical System, which usually pays for victims care in domestic disast ers. esurient and keep On Sunday, SOS Childrens Villages international charity said at least one of the 33 Haitian youngsters whom the Americans had time-tested to take out of Haiti, a little girl, insisted her parents were alive.Charity spokesman George Willeit told journalists the girl said she had believed she was being taken to a boarding school or summer camp. Mr Willeit also said many of the children had been found to be in poor health, hungry and dehydrated. One of the smallest just two or three months old was so dehydrated she had to be taken to hospital, he added. Haitian authorities said none of the children had documentation or confirmation they were actually parentless. Mistake The 10 Americans, who are now in police custody in Port-au-Prince, said they were taking them to an orphanage in neighbouring Dominican Republic.The five men and five women, from Idaho-based charity New Life Childrens Refuge, were stopped while travelling on a bus with the children on the b order with neighbouring Dominican Republic. They said the youngsters had all lost their parents in the quake. Laura Silsby, the groups leader, said the arrests were the result of a mistake. Our understanding was that we were told by a number of people, including Dominican authorities, that we would be able to bring the children across, she said. The mistake we made is that we didnt understand there was additional paperwork required. But the BBCs Rupert Wingfield-Hayes, in Port-au-Prince, says the regulations are very clear each case of child adoption must be authorize by the government. Even before the earthquake, he adds, child-smuggling was a massive problem in Haiti, with thousands of children disappearing each year. (Source http//news. bbc. co. uk/2/hi/americas/8490469. stm, retrieved on Feb 2nd 2010)