Assignment of Discourse Analysis
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Mickey Mouse at 75
1
Mickey Mouse has celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday.
2
He first appeared in
November of nineteen-twenty-eight.
3
The Disney Company honored his birthday
with a big party in Orlando, Florida.
4
Steve Ember has more about the mouse and
the man who created him.
5
Walt Disney was born in nineteen-oh-one.
6
As a young man he hoped to
become a movie producer or director.
7
But he could not find a job.
8
So he decided to
make animated movie.
9
In traditional animation, cartoonists draw each image by
hand.
10
They draw picture after picture, each one a little different from the last, to
create movement.
11

Walt Disney believed animated characters could be just as popular as real
actors.
12
He decided he needed a cartoon hero.
13
So he created Mickey Mouse.
14
The
mouse had big eyes and ears.
15
He stood on two legs like a human.
16
On his hand he
wore white gloves.
17
Mickey Mouse first appeared in nineteen-twenty-eight in the movie
“Steamboat Willie”.
18
He was known then as Mortimer Mouse.
19
In nineteen-thirty-
two, Walt Disney produced the first cartoon filmed in the full-color process called
Technicolor.
20
This movie was called “Flowers and Trees”.
21
It starred Mickey
Mouse.
22
Both the mouse and Walt Disney became famous.

23
Over the years, children read Mickey Mouse comics in newspaper and
played Mickey Mouse toys.
24
They watched the “Mickey Mouse Club” on
television.
25
People checked the time of day on their Mickey Mouse watches and
used Mickey Mouse telephones.
26
Mickey Mouse has had a lot of cultural influence.
27
Too much, some say.
28
But these days, products with another Disney character, Winnie the Pooh, sell
better than Mickey.
29
In two-thousand-four, the Disney Company will release the first full-length
movie starring Mickey Mouse and other characters.
30
Then, the next year, Mickey is
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to appear in his first computer animated film.
31
Both movies will be released only on
video.
32

And, next summer, the United States Postal Service will start to honor
Disney characters with postage stamps.
33
Guess who goes first.
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II. Text summary
Mickey Mouse is the most famous animated character of the Disney Company.
He was created by Walt Disney. He has big eyes and ears, stands on two legs, and
wears white gloves. Mickey Mouse first appeared in November of 1928 in the
movie “Steamboat Willie”. This year, Mickey Mouse has celebrated his seventy-
fifth birthday. Mickey Mouse and Walt Disney have become famous since the first
cartoon filmed in the full-color called “Flowers and trees”. Over the years, Mickey
Mouse has had a lot of cultural influence in society. For example, many things were
produced in Mickey Mouse’s shape such as Mickey Mouse toys, Mickey Mouse
watches or Mickey Mouse telephones. In the next two years, the Disney Company
will release two movies starring Mickey Mouse and others characters. Especially,
the United States Postal Service will start to honor Disney characters with postage
stamps. Actually, Mickey Mouse’s image is in everybody’s heart.
Genres:
* Content: Describe the Mickey Mouse’s development process from his first
appearance to now.
* Format:
- There are three Mickey Mouse’s pictures on the left of the text. The text is on the
right; it is divided into eight paragraphs.
- At the bottom of the text, there is the explanation of two words “animated” and
“character”.
- The letter “M” is capitalized very big at the first paragraph.

- At the top of right corner has the phrase “Happy new year”
* Generic structure: Mickey Mouse at seventy-fifth was written for people on
over the world especially children. Therefore, it was used with understandable
vocabularies, simple structure, or a variety of sentences and etc. For example:
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- Short sentence: “It starred Mickey Mouse”
- Imperative sentence: “Guess who goes first”
- Bold word: animated, characters, cultural
- Capitalize proper noun: Mickey Mouse, Disney Company, Orlando, Florida,
Steve Ember, Walt Disney, Steamboat Willie, Mortimer Mouse, and United
States Postal Service
- At the beginning of each paragraph, the first letter of the word is capitalized
and
- Some proper noun are in quotation mark: “Steamboat Willie”, “Flowers and
Trees”, “Mickey Mouse Club”
- Hyphen between words: seventy-fifth, nineteen-twenty-eight, nineteen-oh-
one, nineteen-thirty-two, two-thousand-four
* Communicative message: This text is to happy Mickey Mouse’s seventy-fifth
birthday. Through the text, the writer describes the Mickey Mouse’s development
process from his appearance through his famous animated films and Mickey
Mouse’s cultural influences in society. Besides, he wants to let everyone know the
Disney Company’s projects in the next two years.
III. Elements making the text meaningful
1. Picture analysis
In these pictures, Mickey Mouse and his girl friend (Minnie) are on the
great wall on the street and in Disney Park. This shows that how famous Mickey
Mouse is all over the world. Also, through the pictures, we can image the image

of Mickey Mouse in reality. On his face, there is always a friendly smile that
makes more lovely and amiable.
2. Lexical devices
a. Synonymy
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(9) – (10): image – picture
(12) – (13): cartoon hero - Mickey Mouse
(17) – (18): Mickey Mouse -- Mortimer Mouse
(19) – (20): the first cartoon filmed in the full color – “the Flowers and Trees”
b. Repetition
(1) – (3): his seventy-fifth birthday
(9) – (10): draw
(1 - 14 – 17 – 21 – 23 – 25 – 26 – 28 – 29 - 30): Mickey Mouse
(6 – 8 – 17 – 20 - 29): movie
(5 – 11 – 19 - 22): Walt Disney
(3) – (29): the Disney Company
(21) – (29): Movie starring Mickey Mouse
(29) – (31): release
(2) – (17): nineteen-twenty-eight
(4 – 14 – 22): the mouse
c. Antonym
d. Hyponymy
(4) – (5), (6): man – Walt Disney, a young man
(6) – (7): movie producer, director – job
(8) – (9), (19), (30): animated movies- traditional animation, cartoon film in
the full color, computer animated film
(8) – (17), (20): animated movies – “Steamboat Willie”, “the Flowers and

Trees”
(11) – (12): animated characters – cartoon hero
(13) – (14): Mickey Mouse – mouse
(23) – (24) – (31): newspaper – television – video (co-hyponym)
(23) – (25): children – people
(28) – (32): Winnie the Pool Mickey – Disney characters
e. Metonymy
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