Attitude and subjectivity in Italian and British hard-news reporting: The construction of a culture-specific ‘reporter’ voice

Pounds, Gabrina

doi:10.1177/1461445609346777

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“…APPRAISAL is an extension of the interpersonal dimension, and has been widely adopted to analyse evaluation in (mainly) written texts (e.g., Bednarek, 2008;Carretero and Taboada, 2014;Don, 2007;Fuoli, 2012;Fuoli and Hommerberg, 2015;Fuoli and Paradis, 2014;Hommerberg and Don, 2015;Hood, 2006;Hood and Martin, 2007;Kaltenbacher, 2006;Lipovsky, 2008Lipovsky, , 2011Lipovsky, , 2013Mackay and Parkinson, 2009;O'Donnell, 2014;Pounds, 2010Pounds, , 2011Ryshina-Pankova, 2014;Santamaría-García, 2014;Taboada and Carretero, 2012;Taboada et al, 2014;and White, 1998). The category of APPRAISAL with which this study is concerned is ENGAGEMENT and its division of evaluative expressions into markers of dialogic EXPANSION and CONTRACTION on the basis of their intersubjective functionality.…”

Section: The Classification Of Engagement In Appraisalmentioning

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A study of dialogic expansion and contraction in spoken discourse using corpus and experimental techniques

Pöldvere¹,

Fuoli²,

Paradis³

2016

Corpora

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This study examines the dialogic functions of expansion and contraction of first-person epistemic and evidential Complement-Taking Predicate (CTP) constructions, such as I think complement, I suppose complement and I know complement, in spoken discourse. It combines corpus and experimental methods (i) to investigate whether CTP constructions are used to open up the dialogic space for new ideas or counterarguments, or to fend off alternative views, and (ii) to identify what contextual factors play a role in determining the dialogic force of the constructions. First, an exploratory analysis of CTP constructions in the London–Lund Corpus (LLC) of spoken British English is carried out with the aim to identify important contextual factors and generate hypotheses about their dialogic effects. Then, a laboratory experiment is conducted to test the impact of the three most prominent factors for speakers' interpretations of utterances containing CTPs. The results indicate that CTP constructions do not only serve to expand the dialogic context in which they occur, but also to restrict alternative views. Interlocutor status, the co-occurrence of other stance markers and prosodic marking of first-person CTP are shown to have a significant effect on the dialogic function of the expressions. These findings call into question some claims in appraisal theory about the role of CTP constructions in discourse, and highlight the need for a flexible approach to the analysis of these poly-functional stance expressions.

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Section: The Classification Of Engagement In Appraisalmentioning

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A study of dialogic expansion and contraction in spoken discourse using corpus and experimental techniques

Pöldvere¹,

Fuoli²,

Paradis³

2016

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“…Bednarek, 2006Bednarek, , 2008Carretero and Taboada, 2014;Fuoli, 2012;Hommerberg and Don, forthcoming;Lipovsky, 2008Lipovsky, , 2013O'Donnell, 2014;Pounds, 2010Pounds, , 2011Ryshina-Pankova, 2014;Santamaría-García, 2014;Taboada and Carretero, 2012) is manual corpus annotation. Rather than using pre-defined lists of evaluative expressions, these are manually identified and coded in text, and quantitative data are derived from the annotations.…”

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Optimising transparency, reliability and replicability: annotation principles and inter-coder agreement in the quantification of evaluative expressions

Fuoli¹,

Hommerberg

2015

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Manual corpus annotation facilitates exhaustive and detailed corpus-based analyses of evaluation that would not be possible with purely automatic techniques. However, manual annotation is a complex and subjective process. Most studies adopting this approach have paid insufficient attention to the methodological challenges involved in manually annotating evaluation, in particular concerning transparency, reliability and replicability. This article illustrates a procedure for annotating evaluative expressions in text that facilitates more transparent, reliable and replicable analyses. The method is demonstrated through a case study analysis of APPRAISAL (Martin and White, 2005) in a small-size specialized corpus of CEO letters published by the British energy company BP and four competitors before and after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill of 2010. Drawing on Fuoli and Paradis' (2014) model of trust-repair discourse, it examines how ATTITUDE and ENGAGEMENT resources are strategically deployed by BP's CEO in the attempt to repair stakeholders' trust after the accident.

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“…Stance, however, extends beyond linguistic means. On the one hand, it is expressed through semiotic systems such as visual signs (Economou, 2008), especially in video genres such as television news (Pounds, 2010). On the other hand, it results in consequences far beyond formulations which will be briefly explained in the progression model (section three).…”

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Journalistic Stance in Newswriting on Iranian Nuclear Issue

Ghane¹,

Mahdavirad²

2016

IJEL

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Regarding the role of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) in discovering the way ideology is crystalized through the prevalence of various discourses, the present study is an attempt to examine how the journalistic personal and institutional ideologies and political positions are realized through certain textual and intertextual features. Using Perrin's (2012) progression model, journalistic stancing with regard to the Iranian nuclear issue at three levels of micro, meso, and macro was investigated. The study of claims of unpeacefulness in the Western media texts under investigation reveals a systematic ideological bias towards portraying a negative presentation of Iranian nuclear policy. The Iranian journalists, however, tend to highlight the peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program and the West's double standards as well as Iran's efforts in order to come to a mutual agreement. Implications of the insights provided by the study for confirming the premises of CDA and applications of the findings for teaching are explained in brief.

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Attitude and subjectivity in Italian and British hard-news reporting: The construction of a culture-specific ‘reporter’ voice

Cited by 43 publications

References 9 publications

A study of dialogic expansion and contraction in spoken discourse using corpus and experimental techniques

A study of dialogic expansion and contraction in spoken discourse using corpus and experimental techniques

Optimising transparency, reliability and replicability: annotation principles and inter-coder agreement in the quantification of evaluative expressions

Journalistic Stance in Newswriting on Iranian Nuclear Issue

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