Sender and receiver
When analysing an article it is important to take into consideration the sender and the receiver of it. The same principle applies to “Belfast Protests Leaving Scars on Schoolchildren” by Brian Lavery too.
Sender
The sender of the article “Belfast Protests Leaving Scars on Schoolchildren” is Brian Lavery, who works for The New York Times.
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Receiver
As usual, the receiver (or the target audience) of an article is indicated both by the topic of the article and by the medium through which it was conveyed.
As we have previously mentioned, the medium of the article “Belfast Protests Leaving Scars on Schoolchildren” is the American daily newspaper The New York Times; so the target audience is obviously the American readership.
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