Analysis of Tina Rosenbergs Everyone Speaks Text Message...

â€Å"Everyone Speaks Text Message appeared in an American daily newspaper, The New York Times, on December 9, 2011. Author, Tina Rosenberg, a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute, in â€Å"Everyone Speaks Text Message† implores her readers to contemplate preserving their native language and presents digital technology as the ultimate solution. Rosenberg targets linguistic minorities and the readers of The New York Times as her audience. The author’s main purpose is to inform the readers that numerous indigenous languages such as N’Ko are fading away, and efforts towards saving them must be initiated. She examines the problems faced by N’Ko, and then she concludes the essay by discussing efforts put forth by the native people to save†¦show more content†¦This is essential in asserting the author’s creditability. This quotation explains about the fact that digital technology is effective in rekindling dying languages and scripts such as N’Ko. The story of Traore’s personal experience allows the essay to be more compelling as it helps to make Traore’s story more relatable and credible to the average audience, and awards the readers with an intriguing piece of writing. Rosenberg’s approach of using real life examples works because her audience wants to hear firsthand accounts of other cultures that have either dealt or are dealing with the issue of preserving their indigenous language. She uses the story of Traore to raise interest among audience regarding this topic. By the use of anecdotes, Rosenberg makes Traore’s story more relatable and credible to her audience of linguistic minorities. Rosenberg uses imagery to strengthen her article’s purpose and convey her message to her audience. In the introductory paragraph, Rosenberg introduces N’Ko with the help of imagery in order to appeal to the audience promptly. Rosenberg says, â€Å" N’Ko looks like a cross between Arabic and ancient Norse runes, written from right to left in blocky script with the letters connected underneath† (Rosenberg 267). She tries to describe the visual image of N’Ko script, which allows the audience to visualize the written N’Ko script, which increases readers’