Language and Register (add image)

The language used in magazines needs to be appropriate for the target audience and after analysing and looking critically at various magazines within the opera genre, we can see that the language used may be very different from that used in a different genre of magazine such as a pop magazine.

The language used, such in that of the below double page spread taken:

The language style and typography used is quite sophisticated with no colloquial language which accurately represents the target audience of the opera genre. The words in the passage have not been contracted to shortened words such as ‘do not’ to ‘don’t’.  The magazine has used formal synonyms for everyday words to keep the formality of the magazine and portray a higher standard, such as instead of the word ‘very’ the magazine has used the words ‘intensely’ where as a different brand of magazine may have stuck to the word very which would make it easier for their target audience to read. The sophisticated language would suggest that the target audience are capable of reading more difficult words.