A Study of Adjective Types and Functions in Popular Science Articles

Jitpranee, Jutharat

doi:10.5296/ijl.v9i2.10811

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“…Researcher Jutharat Jitpranee identifies that one of the most important principle in populas science materials is the availability and interesting presenting of the information (Jitpranee, 2017).…”

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Media as a Source of Popular Science Information during COVID-19 Pandemic

Kitsa¹

2021

International Journal of Media and Information Literacy

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Popular science journalism is an effective method of communication between the scientific community and ordinary people. In the article it is considered popular science media as an important part of mediaspace. On the basis of overview of Ukrainian media, it is done the analysis of the current situation with popular science information in media. To understand the expectations of audience it was conducted the survey (N = 200). Thus it was determined the role of scientific information for the audience, as well as identified relevant methods of presenting scientific information. The survey showed that popular science journalism plays an important role in the lives of Ukrainians. Especially it is actual during world pandemic, when citizens want to know about the newest means of treating from COVID-19. Most respondents, as expected, actively use the Internet to learn about the latest advances in science and technology. As it turned out, Ukrainians read not only domestic publications, but also foreign ones, but there are still respondents who are poorly oriented in the topic, are not informed in the current situation with new in science and in particular with the COVID-19 researchings.

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Media as a Source of Popular Science Information during COVID-19 Pandemic

Kitsa¹

2021

International Journal of Media and Information Literacy

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“…Adjective plays a crucial role in describing and/or modifying nouns by attributing and qualifying them (Jitpranee, 2017;Khamying, 2007). However, in his study on English adjectives in online comments of Algerian English speakers, Belfarhi (2019) discovered that adjectives are used in different forms by combining them with non-linguistics forms (emoji) and how they did not function as a modifier to nouns.…”

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“…Adjectives also work as a persuasive method by describing the characteristic of something or someone. Unlike research papers, adjectives are used in popular science articles to mainly express scientific knowledge to readers as the meaningfulness of the articles depends on how attractive, readable, and accessible they are (Jitpranee, 2017). However, Marzá (2011), through her corpus analysis of adjectives in hotel advertisements, discovered that unlike the common belief of advertisements contains high use of the adjective, hotel advertisements use a subtle amount of adjective as it is discovered that evaluative adjective is not even half the number of adjective in the corpus.…”

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Analysis on Adjective Suki and Its Co-occurrences in Japanese Youtube’s Comment

Zubbir¹,

Dass²,

Ahmad³

2021

JSSH

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Youtube is one of the most famous video-sharing and social networking platforms in the world. Due to its comment section function, Youtube also plays a role in describing the perception and reaction of the general public. This study aims to examine the discourse prosody found in the adjective suki and its co-occurrences. This is a mixed-method research where corpus linguistics is used for quantitative data analysis and, discourse prosody for the qualitative method. The Youtube comments chosen are five videos from Japan’s number one Youtuber, Hajimeshachoo in January 2020. Only the first 24 hours comments were picked. The findings show that the adjective suki is the most significant na-adjective used in the Youtube comments gathered. Na-adjective mainly co-occurred with an adverb that modified the adjective suki mostly to elevate the sense of likeness, adoration, or fondness of the content and/or creator of the video. The adjective suki can have both positive and negative discourse prosody depending on its co-occurrence.

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“…This study found that the use of adjectives connected to the framing of the certain cases. In these views (Altun, 2019;Durán-Muñoz, 2019;Edo Marzá, 2017;Fragaki, 2010;Jing, 2011;Jitpranee, 2017;Kartal, 2017;Marzá, 2013;Mazdayasna & Firouzi, 2013;Mia, 2018;Nashina, 2010;Salim & Saad, 2016;Tran, 2013) revealed that the adjectives could show the condition, situation or even the characteristics of the objects. This study also agreed that the adjectives could be used for imaging the object and it also could be used for evaluating the object.…”

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“…Corpus could be used to figure out the Greek adjective (Fragaki, 2010). To figure out the most frequent adjective in the academic writing, such as social sciences, technology, medical sciences, linguistics, literature and technical by applying corpus (Ağçam & Özkan, 2015;Jitpranee, 2017;Kartal, 2017;Mazdayasna & Firouzi, 2013;Nashina, 2010). Those previous studies used corpus to investigate the most frequent adjective on the other hand, and those studies only observed the quantity and type of the most frequent adjective.…”

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Corpus-Based Analysis of the Most Frequent Adjective on Covid-19

Astia

Yunianti

2020

IJEFL

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This study aims to investigate the type of adjectives in the most frequent adjectives and also the use of the adjective functions on academic writing about COVID-19. This study was conducted by using a corpus tool named sketchengine. The method of this study was a mixed-method by combining quantitative and qualitative approaches. The source of the data was corpus about COVID-19 academic writing due to the fact that COVID-19 has been the trending topic around the globe and also became an international concern. There were several data collection steps; those were first, knowing the most frequent adjective in the COVID-19 corpus by choosing a wordlist. Second, the data were taken 20 the most frequent adjectives used in COVID-19 corpus because 20 data have already represented the most frequent adjectives. Third, it chose the concordance to comprehend the function of the adjective in the COVID-19 corpus. Fourth, 20 the most frequent adjectives were inputted one at a time on concordance. Fifth, the data were analyzed based on the related theory. Finally, it is inferred that the adjective type on the most frequent adjective is a describing adjective, which has the function to frame the condition, situation and characteristic of the noun on the COVID-19 cases.

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A Study of Adjective Types and Functions in Popular Science Articles

Cited by 5 publications

References 6 publications

Media as a Source of Popular Science Information during COVID-19 Pandemic

Media as a Source of Popular Science Information during COVID-19 Pandemic

Analysis on Adjective Suki and Its Co-occurrences in Japanese Youtube’s Comment

Corpus-Based Analysis of the Most Frequent Adjective on Covid-19

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