Contrastive analysis of interactional discourse markers in English and Spanish newspaper texts

López, Julia Lavid; Moratón, Lara

doi:10.1075/pbns.296.04lav

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“…The fact that there was significantly higher stance markers than engagement markers in the corpus can be attributed to the journalistic nature of the editorials, which does not require real engagement with readers. This predominance of stance markers over engagement markers in both the USA and the UAE editorials has been reported by previous research (Lavid & Moratón, 2018).…”

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“…Other studies of meta-discourse addressed media discourse and many registers such as editorials, opinion columns, and advertisements have been investigated (Al-Subhi, 2021, 2022Dafouz-Milne, 2008;Fu & Hyland, 2014;Le, 2004). More recent studies have looked at interactional meta-discourse and its specific features such as Khanbutayeva (2019), andLavid andMoratón (2018). Lavid and Moratón (2018) conducted a contrastive analysis of international meta-discourse markers in a sample of English and Spanish newspaper texts in three genres: news reports, editorials, and letters to the editor.…”

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“…More recent studies have looked at interactional meta-discourse and its specific features such as Khanbutayeva (2019), andLavid andMoratón (2018). Lavid and Moratón (2018) conducted a contrastive analysis of international meta-discourse markers in a sample of English and Spanish newspaper texts in three genres: news reports, editorials, and letters to the editor. Results reported genre-related and language-specific variation in the distribution of these markers in newspaper genres.…”

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Interactional meta-discourse and phraseology in newspaper editorials during the Russia-Ukraine War

Al-Subhi

2023

ONLINE J COMMUN MEDIA TECHNOL

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The massive influence of media in our daily life has led to an increased interest of analyzing media discourse among linguists. A newspaper editorial is a distinctive register of print media that expresses the newspaper’s opinion about current issues in the world. The present study showed the results of a linguistic comparative analysis of the language of newspaper editorials that are published recently during the Russia-Ukraine War. The investigation is based on samples taken from leading newspapers in the USA and the UAE. The corpus consists of 24 editorials totaling about 16,673 words written in English. The study aimed to investigate two fundamental principles of language use, namely: meta-discourse and phraseology in the genre of newspaper editorials adapting a quantitative content analysis approach. Hyland’s (2005b) interactional model of meta-discourse has been applied in the analysis. Data showed a high level of similarity between the USA and the UAE editorials in terms of frequency of several linguistic markers. Data also showed that stance markers were significantly higher than engagement markers in both corpora. Moreover, results reported a variety of use of collocations, modality, and idiomatic expressions. The study concluded that newspaper editorials are argumentative texts that are distinguished by the use of hedges, attitude markers, and other persuasive devices. The study combines key linguistic concepts and contributes to the field of discourse analysis as it provides useful insights about media discourse and newspaper discourse particularly editorials.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 84%