Contrasting semantic and sentimental features between Chinese and American economic news discourse in the epidemic era: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis

Li, Luanying; Gao, Fei

doi:10.1016/j.ssaho.2023.100435

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“…The presence of computers has benefited linguistic studies, including critical discourse analysis. Some research used computers and software to investigate sentiment analysis in social media and film reviews (Dukhovnaya, 2022;Li and Gao, 2023), while others investigated the discursive construction of particular issues from the keyness, intertextuality, and interdiscursivity (Almaghlouth, 2022). Corpus tools such as AntConc, Wmatrix, and Sketch Engine have provided beneficial tools to map news themes, lexical bundles in textbooks, and climate change frames in a political speech (Ardi et al, 2023;Liu and Huang, 2022;Willis, 2017).…”

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Contesting “growth” and “sustainability” in Indonesia’s capital city relocation: a corpus ecolinguistic study

Suhandano,

Isti’anah,

Febrina

2023

RR. Т. and A.L.

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The global environmental crisis has triggered academic discussions on how infrastructure discourse often eliminates the environment as a part of the ecosystem. One noticeable contested issue is Indonesia’s capital city relocation from Jakarta to Penajam Paser Utara, Borneo Island. Considering the island’s biodiversity hotspot, the capital city relocation has invited debates about environmental impacts. Despite the criticism and scepticism of the government’s ambitious project, the Indonesian House of Representatives passed the relocation law, followed by the president’s capital city development regulations. Some research has discussed the new capital city (NCC) discourse, but the analysis from a corpus ecolinguistic perspective is absent. It is hypothesised that the lexemes “growth” and “sustainability” in the NCC legal documents represent the government’s intention to communicate the relocation intention and legitimise the plan. Therefore, this paper investigates the employment of lexemes “growth” and “sustainability” in the NCC legal documents using Sketch Engine, an online corpus tool developed by Adam Kilgarriff. Additionally, we also observed the nominalisation and transitivity of the concordances where the lexemes were used in the documents. The analysis revealed that “growth” and “sustainability” are inextricably linked to project NCC as a tool to accelerate and catalyse regional and national economic growth. Ecologically, the NCC documents promote an eco-ambivalent discourse since the sustainability objective excludes the environment. Instead, industrial sustainability is the primary goal in the capital city relocation. The country’s welfare measured by its economic success is salient in the discourse, whereas humans’ responsibility towards the deforestation impacts of relocation is lacking. This research was funded by the Final Project Recognition Grant Universitas Gadjah Mada, Number 5075/UN1.P.II/Dit-Lit/PT.01.01/2023. We are also indebted to the editors of Research Result. Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Journal and the anonymous reviewers for providing this paper valuable feedback.

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Contesting “growth” and “sustainability” in Indonesia’s capital city relocation: a corpus ecolinguistic study

Suhandano,

Isti’anah,

Febrina

2023

RR. Т. and A.L.

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“…In the current paper, I investigated New Zealand newspapers writing about Covid-19. The combination of corpus linguistic and Critical Discourse Analysis was previously used to obtain fruitful results from analyzing media texts (Li and Gao 2023). Burnette and Calude (2022) explored how Twitter posts reflected New Zealand government measurements to cope with Covid-19 pandemic.…”

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Emotional Context of Newspaper Articles about Covid-19

Pervukhina

2024

IJAES

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This paper explores the newspaper texts about Covid-19 from the point of view of emotions. New Zealand has been chosen for the country where Coronovirus pandemic was kept at bay for a long time. But after the cases started to escalate, the situation changed and the tone of newspapers changed, too. The analysis showed the dependence of emotions in the texts and the rise of Covid-19 cases as an indicator of danger. The article analyses three phases of the situation in New Zealand with Covid, such as phase 1 when the number of new cases was controlled, phase 2 when the number of new cases was quickly escalating, and phase 3 when the number of new cases was still high but not so quickly changing. The corpora were analyzed from the point of view of negative and positive reaction to the situation of pandemic escalation in the world and in New Zealand. The findings show a strong relation of the social and textual contexts.

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“…Kekhawatiran akan keselamatan jiwa dan keselamatan keluarga menghadirkan tekanan bagi berbagai kalangan. Bahkan, Covid-19 membawa krisis kesehatan masyarakat global yang mengancam kehidupan manusia (Li & Gao, 2023). Tingkat risiko yang tinggi dan penyebaran yang begitu masif menjadi penyebab munculnya ketakutan dan kecemasan itu.…”

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EKSPRESI KECEMASAN NETIZEN DI MEDIA SOSIAL FACEBOOK TENTANG PANDEMI COVID-19 (Netizens' Expressions of Anxiety on Facebook Social Media Regarding the Covid-19 Pandemic)

2023

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Discourse studies and the Covid-19 pandemic have attracted the attention of previous researchers with various topics. However, studies that focus on the anxiety of netizens as expressed through social media Facebook have not been carried out. Therefore, this research is designed to fill the gap in the literature by revealing the forms and linguistic features utilized in representing the anxiety of netizens through the social media Facebook. Qualitative research using a critical discourse analysis approach was conducted on uploads by netizens on Facebook which were published between March and May 2020 and were selected purposively. The collected data is processed by thematic analysis. The results of the study show that netizens' anxiety about the Covid-19 pandemic is manifested in religious expressions, personal reflections, fears and worries, hopes, anger, and advice. The various forms of expression found represent messages of anxiety and efforts to build public awareness to comply with health protocols. The linguistic features used include collective and exclusive pronouns, repetition, metaphor, parallelism, and pragmatic markers of invitations and orders. This linguistic feature functions to foster collectivity, convey feelings, confirm information, and encourage public participation. The research findings provide a new perspective on the study of disaster discourse and expand the area of language studies in a pandemic situation.

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Contrasting semantic and sentimental features between Chinese and American economic news discourse in the epidemic era: A corpus-based critical discourse analysis

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

Contesting “growth” and “sustainability” in Indonesia’s capital city relocation: a corpus ecolinguistic study

Contesting “growth” and “sustainability” in Indonesia’s capital city relocation: a corpus ecolinguistic study

Emotional Context of Newspaper Articles about Covid-19

EKSPRESI KECEMASAN NETIZEN DI MEDIA SOSIAL FACEBOOK TENTANG PANDEMI COVID-19 (Netizens' Expressions of Anxiety on Facebook Social Media Regarding the Covid-19 Pandemic)

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