The text’s title is The chief features of the Industrial Revolution. The layout is simple, thee text is divided in paragraphs and there are some narrative interruptions between paragraphs. The text is an argumentative text, in particular, it is a university written detailed account of the historical process known the Industrial Revolution and it reports the most important facts happened and a big number of statistics and external studies performed by different economists. The author presents a topic and he discuss it, pointing out his opinions and supporting them with argumentation. The argumentations are taken from external studies of a large number of economists, presenting to the reader dates, values and percentages. The position of the reader is defined: the reader has only to read the text, he/she can’t criticize what is written because his/her argumentation are not enough strong to win against the precise statistics presented by the author. The reader can only think about what he/she reads and make in his/her mind a personal opinion, although he/she can’t point out it. The text is complicated, due to the enormous number of numbers and statistics. The consequence is that the reader has got difficulty to read this passage, making the reader read slowly. Obviously, the language register is high and tipical of economic field. There are not semantic fields, because the passage only point out many phenomenons happened during the Industrial Revolution and discussing them, so there aren’t strong and defined semantic fields.

    Analyising the connotative levels we see the font is simple, probably Verdana. The passage doesn’t follow a particular phonological scheme, probably due to a complex sound of words. In fact, words are complicated and selected, we can’t find two same words in the same phrase. This tecnic could be adopted by the author to enrich the text of meaning. The synctactical level is characterized by a large use of punctation, parenthesis, numbers instead of words, percentages and paragraphe’s spaces. The word order is conventional and there aren’t digressions.

    The argumentations are most of times quantitative argumentations: for instance all reports are quantitative argumentations. The referrings to other researchs and texts are pointed out following a chronological order and introduced by words such as “coming to the facts”, which suggests to the reader that the paraghraph will report precise statistics.

    Concluding my analysis, I think that this passage is a little bit to read because the narrator’s ideal reader is who can completely understand his economic preparation. I certainly can’t understand all he describes, but I think this is a good economic report of causes and consequences of the Industrial Revolution.