This article is concerned with 'how' newsworthiness is constructed linguistically/discursively in a sample of Iranian crime and misbehaviour reports. This is new as both linguistic analysis of 'crime reports' and the context of 'Iranian journalism' are among under-researched areas. Onemonth worth editions of two Iranian/Farsi language newspapers were collected, and the data were analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively with reference to the analytical framework of Bednarek and Caple. While the quantitative analysis showed the construction of Eliteness as the most frequent news value in both newspapers, there were differences in the construction of news values between the newspapers. Qualitative analysis of the data also showed the construction of news values in line with the sociocultural values prevalent in the society as well as the possible role of state and political authorities.
This paper explores communing affiliation and out-grouping in a corpus of Trump’s tweets about Iran. Communing is
a form of ‘ambient affiliation’ (Zappavigna 2011) which offers a way of understanding
how Trump attempts to build alignments with his audience without necessarily directly engaging with them, since he tends
to ignore replies to his tweets. The paper focuses on three affiliation strategies: convoking (mustering community),
promoting (garnering attention), and finessing (dialogistic positioning). It draws on Martin and White’s (2005) Appraisal framework to consider how these affiliation strategies are used to
foster communing around ideation-attitude couplings, typically couplings associating Iran with negative judgement or
appreciation. Promoting affiliation was found to be the most prominent affiliation strategy used by Trump to
garner attention through his rhetorical tendency toward hyperbole.
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