News discourse and readers’ comments: Expanding the range of citizenship positions?

Pinto-Coelho, Zara; Carvalho, Anabela; Seixas, Eunice Castro

doi:10.1177/1464884917707595

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“…It is undeaniable that media contribute significantly to the creation of such "political spectacles." Through media, candidates not only transmit information, but also create an image of themselves in the minds of their audience (Bhatia, 2006;Diakopoulos & Naaman, 2011;Kinsey, 1993;Pinto-Coelho et al, 2019). The media can also be used as a means of determining whether this "spectacle" is successful or not.…”

Section: Ethos éMotif In the Presidential Campaignmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating Representation Ethos Émotif in 2007 French Presidential Election

Firmonasari

Syabana²

2020

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The issue of immigration became prominent in French political discourse in 2005 that leads to debate about France and nationalism. During the lead-up to the 2007 French Presidential election, various concepts of a French national identity were promoted by candidates: Nicolas Sarkozy, Ségolene Royal, François Bayrou, and Jean-Marie Le Pen. Candidates gave particular attention to ethos, specifically ethos émotif. In this article, the researcher will characterize the ethos émotif presented by the four candidates mentioned above. The ethos will be then examined whether it were successfully embodied in these candidates' speeches by investigating the public reaction they received based on articles published in the French media. This research will apply a critical discourse analysis and interactional sociolinguistics approach using elements of interaction formulated by Stébe (2008) and Kerbrat-Orecchioni (1990). Data will be classified using the software LEXICO 3.

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Section: Ethos éMotif In the Presidential Campaignmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating Representation Ethos Émotif in 2007 French Presidential Election

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2020

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“…News threads are a comparatively new phenomena that became common from around 2004 and have been widely touted for their potential to re-shape the general public's practices of engagement with news (Hughey and Daniels, 2013). Citizens are said to have the potential to exercise (discursive) 'power' through their comments (Pinto-Coelho et al, 2017) by acting on and with news directly in the places where news is created/disseminated.…”

Section: Civility Framing and The Analysis Of Online News Forumsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Drawing particularly on Goffman's use of the term, discursive approaches often also invoke the notion of 'frame' when studying online forums, which, in this context means something like "An ideological construct made up of culturally shared ideas that people invoke to legitimise and make sense of the activity they are accomplishing" (Del-teso-craviotto 2006: 468). Some of the topics that have been commonly studied through discourse studies include harassment (Parson, 2018), particularly gender harassment (Rodríguez-Darias and Aguilera-Ávila, 2017), and the ways that publics engage with media discourse (Pinto-Coelho et al, 2017).…”

Section: The Discursive Turnmentioning

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Constructing blame for school exclusion in an online comments forum: Membership categorisation analysis and endogenous category work

Gibson¹,

Roca-Cuberes

2019

Discourse, Context & Media

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In this article we use Membership Categorisation Analysis to analyse conversations in an online forum in the British newspaper The Guardian. The comments thread followed an Op Ed piece that discussed the exclusion of 'under-performing' children in British secondary schools. Our analysis of these comments contributes to existing studies of online forums as a mode of public discourse and demonstrates the importance of research that focusses on interactional practices rather than on notions such as 'politeness' or 'framing'. We show the ways that participants used endogenous conversational categories to produce epistemic alignment and disalignment with each other, employing various strategies such as expanding category collections, creating relations between 'culpable' categories and 'trouble' categories, and re-describing categories through alternate category predicates. Through this, we see that the conversational actions undertaken in the forum are much more complicated than current concepts allow for, and we reflect on what such complexity might mean for the study and design of news forums.

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“…However, the study argued that the news factors of the news articles play an important role in the interactivity and participation level of the audience. A study by Pinto-Coelho et al (2019) analyzed the relationship between the authority that was given by the news media to the citizens and the authority that was taken up by the readers when they expressed their views in the form of comments. This study focused on analyzing the news articles of the Portuguese National Plan for Dams of High Hydro-electric Potential (NPDHHP), along with the comments of the readers who commented on that particular news.…”

Section: Studies On Digital Discoursementioning

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Digital Comments on News: A Contrastive Study of the Rhetorical Devices used in the United Kingdom, India and the United States of America

Banerjee¹

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In the course of writing, metadiscourse allows a writer to guide, direct and interact with their readers as it inherits the writer's intention, stance, thoughts, and feelings.The metadiscourse markers allow the readers to comprehend the writer's judgement and evaluation of the writer's target audience alongside the idea of the context in use.Hence, metadiscourse has emerged as one of the most popular methods for examining texts and a prevalent research topic since it was first brought to prominence in the early 1980s, continuing to its current popularity.With the rapid digital progression, nowadays, people are highly interested in digital newspapers, which are the online version of printed newspapers. The prime reason for the attraction towards these digital newspapers is that people get a scope to share their opinions in the form of comments after reading particular news. For this increasing interest of people in digital newspapers, emerging newspapers, as well as well-established and prestigious newspapers, are creating an online version of their printed newspapers.Our study focuses on digital comments (specifically, news comments), where the commenters express their views, opinions, and thoughts through their comments and by replying to the previous comments in the same thread. This doctoral dissertation aims at the exploration and comparison of metadiscourse markers on digital comments of the commenters. It upholds our endeavor of conducting a novel work in the field of language research. Moreover, it can pave the way for future language researchers as well.In the absence of a benchmark corpus for English news comments, we compiled our corpus by taking into account three popular domains (namely-sports, politics, and entertainment) and two different political ideologies (namely-left-wing and rightwing). We collected 2034 digital comments and a total of 2004 replies from 64 news articles from 12 leading English newspapers of three different countries (the United Kingdom, India, and the United States of America) belonging to three distinct continents (Europe, Asia, and America). In this work, we examine the use of metadiscourse v vi markers based on four aspects: different domains, English language proficiency, different geo-location, and different political ideologies. Based on these four aspects, this study examines the similarities and contrasts among writers (in our case, commenters), which aids in understanding the writers' usage of metadiscourse markers. In this dissertation, in the context of English digital news comments, for the first time, we present an in-depth quantitative as well as qualitative analysis of metadiscourse markers (interactional and interactive).We conclude that the commenters use metadiscourse markers differently across different domains; however, the use of metadiscourse may be affected by the commenters' location, language, and political ideologies. ResumenDurant l'escriptura, el metadiscurs permet que un escriptor guiï, dirigeixi i interactuï amb els seus lectors, ja que hereta la ...

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News discourse and readers’ comments: Expanding the range of citizenship positions?

Cited by 11 publications

References 34 publications

Investigating Representation Ethos Émotif in 2007 French Presidential Election

Investigating Representation Ethos Émotif in 2007 French Presidential Election

Constructing blame for school exclusion in an online comments forum: Membership categorisation analysis and endogenous category work

Digital Comments on News: A Contrastive Study of the Rhetorical Devices used in the United Kingdom, India and the United States of America

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