Textual and interpersonal differences between a news report and an editorial

McCabe, Anne; Heilman, Karl J.

doi:10.14198/raei.2007.20.07

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“…Their incidence ranged between 32 and 47% of clauses, which was consistent with the frequency identified in other hard news corpora (Shindo 2001;McCabe and Heilman 2007). Alongside visual methods of informational organisation such as the headline/lead nucleus (White 1997) and paragraphing, textual Themes organise the logico-semantic relations in order to "scaffold the text's argumentative structure" (Lavid, Arús and Moratón 2012).…”

Section: Journal Of World Languages 121supporting

confidence: 75%

Culpability across borders: print media of the DSK affair from an SFL perspective

Tjondro

2014

Journal of World Languages

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This article explores the interactions between culture, linguistic choices and hard news journalistic practices, focusing on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) affair of 2011 as the basis for a comparative analysis across three cultures: France, America and Guinea. The present study is motivated by the growing application of linguistic approaches to media studies and cross-cultural research, whose findings affirm the position that language is a resource capable of articulating and reproducing beliefs, judgments and even ideologies about social realities. Through the lens of systemic functional linguistics, patterns of linguistic choices that vary across the French and English language corpus are identified and then analysed with reference to the key discourses generated by the DSK affair. The results demonstrate the value of grammatical description in unveiling cultural, societal and individual ideologies that ordinarily have limited scope for expression in the hard news genre. Consequently, these findings suggest a tension between the presupposed neutrality of the legal process and the power of the media's rhetoric in its capacity as an additional yet covert trial participant.

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Section: Journal Of World Languages 121supporting

confidence: 75%

Culpability across borders: print media of the DSK affair from an SFL perspective

Tjondro

2014

Journal of World Languages

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“…Writers use conjunctions to join two clauses into one sentence, while they use conjunctive adjuncts to link the content of the clause with the preceding text. According to McCabe and Heilman (2007), writers use textual Theme to build a link between clauses and to guide readers to "the expectedness of the writer of the upcoming proposition in light to the previous preposition" (McCabe & Heilman, 2007). For instance, the temporal conjunctive adjunct 'while' in the following tweet serves as a textual Theme that links the clauses together.…”

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Investigating Thematic Choices in Trump’s Tweets on the US-Mexico Wall: Political Discourse on Social Media

Alyousef¹,

Alotaibi²

2020

SJKFU

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Trump declared his intention to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border during his presidential campaign in 2016. On 4 January 2019, President Trump sent a letter to members of the U.S. Congress on the need to build a long wall to secure the U.S. border. This led local news reporters to discuss this political issue and its effects on the American and Mexican populations. Since Trump's decision of building the wall is one of the global issues that have been widely discussed in social media and American media news agencies, it is pertinent to analyze thematic choices in Trump's tweets on the U.S.-Mexico border wall issue. The present study aims to investigate Trump's thematic choices, employing Halliday's systemic functional linguistics' approach. UAM Corpus Tool software was employed in the annotation of Theme types. The results of the study showed that topical Theme was the most frequent Theme type in Trumps' tweets, followed by the textual Theme. Interpersonal Theme was rarely employed. Trump tends to use a simple, direct, and spontaneous language to make the communication style with his audience more natural and less complex. The study contributes to our understanding of Theme types in political discourse on social media. ‫اليوسف‬ ‫سليمان‬ ‫هشام‬ ‫العتيبي‬ ‫عماد‬ ‫نجد‬ ‫و‬ (. 2020 .) ‫حول‬ ‫ترامب‬ ‫دونالد‬ ‫تغريدات‬ ‫في‬ ‫املبتدأ‬ ‫أنواع‬ ‫دراسة‬ ‫االجتماعي.‬ ‫التواصل‬ ‫وسائل‬ ‫في‬ ‫ي‬ ‫السياس‬ ‫الخطاب‬ ‫املكسيك:‬ ‫مع‬ ‫الحدودي‬ ‫الجدار‬ ‫واإلدارية،‬ ‫اإلنسانية‬ ‫العلوم‬ ‫فرع‬ ‫فيصل،‬ ‫امللك‬ ‫لجامعة‬ ‫العلمية‬ ‫املجلة‬ (‫املجلد‬ ‫إلكتروني‬ ‫نشر‬ (‫العدد‬ ،) ‫إلكتروني‬ ‫نشر‬

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“…This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). of language appraisal [20]. Other studies analysing interpersonal meaning and media practices attempt to investigate the ideology or politics of media through its language mechanism (see e.g.…”

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Interlingual Re-Instantiation of Attitude in News Reports on Attacking Incidents in Indonesia’s Newspapers

Gunawan¹,

Putri²

2019

Proceedings of the Eleventh Conference on Applied Linguistics (CONAPLIN 2018)

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This study explores an interlingual re-instantiation of attitude as a language appraisal strategy employed by Indonesia's newspapers in reporting news on attacking incidents. The study aims, firstly, to reveal the types of attitude system employed by Indonesia's newspapers in reporting news on attacking incidents and, secondly, to investigate the potential meanings constructed by the re-instantiation of the attitude system. This study follows interpretative descriptive approach to data collection and analysis. The data were taken from Pikiran Rakyat and The Jakarta Post to give an equal representation of Indonesia's newspapers and analyzed with reference to Martin and White's, Appraisal System focusing on attitude subsystem. The analysis reveals that three subsystems of attitude (affect, judgment, and appreciation) are employed to deliver positive and negative assessments to different addressees. This strategy is combined with certain organizations of discourse to amplify the intensity of the message that results in modified interpretation and potential meanings from the readers. This approach also works as a tool of stance-taking for the news reporters in viewing the attacking incidents. It is concluded that Indonesia's newspapers employ evaluations towards attacking incidents to modify meanings as their politics of reporting.

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Textual and interpersonal differences between a news report and an editorial

Cited by 15 publications

References 5 publications

Culpability across borders: print media of the DSK affair from an SFL perspective

Culpability across borders: print media of the DSK affair from an SFL perspective

Investigating Thematic Choices in Trump’s Tweets on the US-Mexico Wall: Political Discourse on Social Media

Interlingual Re-Instantiation of Attitude in News Reports on Attacking Incidents in Indonesia’s Newspapers

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