Focuses on the function and purposes of the participants in the communicative exchange, including the public (Dabic, 2010). The relationship between the author and the reader is represented as temporary and impersonal and there is no evidence of a hierarchical relationship, however the author can be considered the main tenor as he provides the information. The use of informative language throughout the article, such as locations, names and ages of people involved, suggests that the newspaper article is merely informative and that the author and reader have no prior or personal relationship, implying at the same time that the reader has no prior knowledge of the article. the situation. The opening sentence of the article “Jabbar Al Mhanawi was sitting on the porch of his home in south-west Sydney” (Harris & Pike, 2016) is an explicit example of the informative language used throughout the article to support this claim . The intended audience for this article would be teenagers and adults as the descriptive language used regarding Mr Mhanawi may not be appropriate for readers of all genders.