The Discourse of the Broadcast News Interview

Montgomery, Martin

doi:10.1080/14616700701848303

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“…The notion of discourse fuses these two news media, yet linguistically speaking, the two types of discourse are distinct since each rises from a different context. Jackson and Moulinier (2002), Aitchison and Lewis (2003), and Montgomery (2007) confirm that language or discourse is a contextualized activity and that any instance of discourse or language in use bears the trace of its context. Print news discourse, according to Treloar (2001), are eminently portable and can be transported from one place to another and read any time the user wishes.…”

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Stylistic Awareness to Analyze and Comprehend Authentic Discourse in Language Classrooms

Nabhan¹

2017

OJML

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Stylistic awareness of a text-the knowledge of syntactic, semantic, and/or pragmatic features-leads to an overall understanding of a discourse. The study will focus on the stylistics of news genre as authentic material in classrooms. The aim of this article is to draw a comparison between the language features used in online news and those used in the printed newspapers to underscore the linguistic characteristics of such media. The data to analyze will be collected from two European news media. The electronic tool will be the BBC online news http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/, while the printed one will be International Herald Tribune. The purpose of this study is to highlight the linguistic variations, if they exist, between the two media. The language will be studied in terms of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, showing how these linguistic subfields can affect the language and determine the level of complication in understanding meaning. For discourse analysis, the same theme and topic will be selected. Examples and samples from both media will be posted to display the differences of language use. The comparison will be organized and divided into three subtitles: Syntactic Differences, Pragmatic Differences, and Semantic Differences. The paper will also focus on the effect of hyperlinks on the language and how the unlimited amount of information compressed in the virtual media make the online news unique. In addition, the limitations and weaknesses of both media will be addressed to take the research a step forward in order to make teachers aware of the flaws while using these genuine objects in language classrooms.

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Stylistic Awareness to Analyze and Comprehend Authentic Discourse in Language Classrooms

Nabhan¹

2017

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“…I intend to move the journalists' discourse to centre stage rather than an afterthought. It is important to do this because this discourse not only describes news production but also, I would argue, in part, constitutes Discourse analysis has been used extensively to examine the text of news products and has been extremely useful in unpacking the narrative structures of stories and dissemination of ideological messages embedded within the discourse (cf Bell, 1991, van Dijk, 1988, Fairclough, 1995, Fowler, 1991, Conboy 2006, Matheson, 2005, Hutchby, 2006, Montgomery, 2007. However, this method has not been fully exploited in production studies.…”

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Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists

Reardon

2017

Discourse & Communication

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Journalists are frequently used as a source of information for those studying news production and practice and as a means of describing the 'real' world of news. However, these conversations between researcher and journalist have often largely been treated as a transfer of neutral, transparent information about news practice rather than a discursive practice in itself. Discourse analysis has been extensively applied to the output of news yet is underdeveloped in the area of production studies. This paper argues that that a more discursive approach to news production studies yields a more nuanced understanding of journalistic culture and practice. This is illustrated by using the tools of discursive social psychology to analysis interviews with 23 broadcast journalists about the nature of news.The analysis helps with the identification of the use of empiricist discourse to construct a 'natural' journalism and to justify certain constructions of journalistic practice.

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“…Building also on Montgomery's (2007) work on inference and his Principles of Intelligibility, in this article we propose to operate within the theoretical framework of Relevance Theory according to which viewers assume that any message manifestly conveys a willingness to communicate. In the present study we are concerned with the reception, rather than the production level of news programmes.…”

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A pragmatic cognitive model for the interpretation of verbal–visual communication in television news programmes

Piazza

Haarman

2016

Visual Communication

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The combination of the verbal and the visual track in television news discourse poses a considerable analytical challenge. In the viewers’ minds the co-habitation of these two semiotic channels triggers a complex network of inferential processes, based on expectations of coherence and relevance, with which they make sense of the representation of the world offered in the news. Through the analysis of a number of news items, this article considers the cognitive processes which viewers may activate when extracting meaning from the multimedial messages contained in television news. The analysis of news items from two British television networks offered by the authors traces the possible meanings that, it is assumed, become available to a potential, ‘idealised’ or ‘implied’ viewer, who accesses the information with some social and cultural knowledge of contemporary Britain. Building on existing studies, the article proposes a model for the classification of verbal–visual relations

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The Discourse of the Broadcast News Interview

Cited by 94 publications

References 8 publications

Stylistic Awareness to Analyze and Comprehend Authentic Discourse in Language Classrooms

Stylistic Awareness to Analyze and Comprehend Authentic Discourse in Language Classrooms

Natural selection: Empiricist discourse in the talk of broadcast journalists

A pragmatic cognitive model for the interpretation of verbal–visual communication in television news programmes

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