Genre Realized in Theme: The Case of News Reports        and Commentaries

Lavid, Julia; Arús, Jorge; Moratón, Lara

doi:10.4000/discours.8623

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“…The results of this study lend support to the findings of prior studies; (e.g., Pokasumit, 2009;Lavid et al, 2012;McCabe &Heilman, 2007 andFahimeh &Nabifar, 2013). These studies also utilized linguistic and functional grammar analysis in newspapers with varying purposes in language for communication.…”

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“…Topic and theme are incorporated with each other to introduce a super corpus of the message. Lavid et al (2012) studied "Genre Realized in Theme: The Case of News Reports and Commentaries" of two newspapers using thematic structure to analyze news' texts and found that certain thematic features are needed for each newspaper. "An extremely important aspect of functional grammar is the way information is structured in communication" (Bloor & Bloor, 2004 p. 64).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Linguistic Analysis of AEC News in an English Newspaper for Language Learning and Teaching

Kumsorn¹

2014

JEVR

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An English newspaper, as an authentic English resource, provides a view of global knowledge and English usage in a physical world as it contains manifold issues and discourses valuable for English teaching and learning in a contemporary classroom. This study employed Systemic Functional Grammar of Hallidayâ€™s approach to analyze texts of news linguistically. The purposes of the study were 1) to explore prevalent topics of AEC news as a reflection of Thailand and communicative purposes for the upcoming ASEAN Economic Community in 2015, 2) to specifically analyze grammatical sentence structures used in an English newspaper aiming for English teaching and learning in Thai context. AEC newsâ€™ articles were chosen for this study as it has become a considerably important event which shares multilateral information to ASEAN country members. The Nation newspaper was chosen for data collection for the period from January to August, 2013. Results showed that economics, tourism, and transportation were the most important topics and were reflective of Thailandâ€™s movement towards AEC. The news was mostly organized the idea by particular to general technique and mainly conveyed to the readers with informing as a communicative purpose. The most prevalent sentence structures were complex sentence. Active voice was more prevalent than Passive voice. The conclusion of the study was drawn descriptively. This study implicated that an English newspaper was beneficial for English teaching and learning as it contained a variety of language usage that could be used as a teaching material to improve studentsâ€™ grammatical and writing skills.

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A Linguistic Analysis of AEC News in an English Newspaper for Language Learning and Teaching

Kumsorn¹

2014

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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). This could explain the higher rate of textual Theme in the French articles compared to the American ones, where the former's debate format necessitates a clearer organisation of complex ideas since there are multiple arguments interacting within the text.…”

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“…In this section, we focus on a micro-thematic analysis of the articles to explain how Theme-Rheme structures at the clause level affirm the "correlation between genre and thematic content" (Lavid, Arús and Moratón, 2012). Further studies may apply a macrothematic analysis, based on Danes' (1974) theory of thematic progression, to reveal the thematic hierarchies and interrelations within a text, although previous studies only weakly support the hypothesis that thematic progression (as opposed to the thematic structure at clause level on which we focus our analysis) correlates with genre (Francis 1989(Francis , 1990; as cited in Fries 1995).…”

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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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“…Showing similarities to news reports, the two genres are also different: while news reports are objective and use neutral language in presenting various opinions and sources (White 1998), commentaries often contribute to the formulation of a preferred viewpoint . The two genres are also different with respect to thematic roles as Lavid et al (2012) note, more specifically the thematic head that Lavid et al define as "the first nuclear experiential constituent within the main clause" (2012: 9) expressed by the subject or the complement in the preverbal position of the main clause and carrying experiential roles such as actor, carrier, recipient, attributor, sayer, etc. Based on the findings, both genres have a high frequency of Actor as an experiential role, yet there is a higher percentage of the thematic role of Sayer in news reports, as compared to commentaries, where the thematic role of Carrier prevails .…”

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An Analysis of Dialogic Positioning in Online Commentaries

Nagy

2023

Acta Universitatis Sapientiae, Philologica

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The commentary as a journalistic genre that presents and comments on current events is characterized by intersubjective positioning, whereby the author constructs meaning, seeking alignment or, on the contrary, expressing disalignment with a putative audience. In line with the appraisal theory as developed by Martin and White (2005), which follows the Bakhtian dialogic perspective, according to which utterances and propositions are intersubjectively charged, the paper aims to describe the linguistic means ofengagement, one of the central elements of this theory. Engagement is concerned with how the author expresses authorial voice and how s/he negotiates meaning with the readers, opening up (dialogic expansion) or, on the contrary, closing the dialogic space (dialogic contraction). In this sense, the linguistic means of engagement, such as modality, hedging and boosting devices, evidentiality, are understood to transcend the functions attributed to them within a truth-conditional framework, namely epistemic status and reliability of knowledge, and are seen as means by which the author entertains or rejects alternative voices and opinions. Taking this into consideration, the paper intends to analyse a few selected commentaries on the war situation in Ukraine found on the online platform of The Rand Corporation, a global policy think tank that performs research and conducts evaluations of various topics. It analyses the linguistic means of dialogic positioning, focusing on how the authors negotiate the dialogic space with the audience; while presumably all forms of intersubjective positioning can be found in the texts, it is expected that certain forms of engagement will outnumber others. As all commentaries can be found on the website of the above mentioned corporation, the question also arises as to what extent commentaries show similarity with respect to engagement, thereby expressing, albeit indirectly, a certain standpoint with respect to the Ukrainian warfare.

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Genre Realized in Theme: The Case of News Reports and Commentaries

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

A Linguistic Analysis of AEC News in an English Newspaper for Language Learning and Teaching

A Linguistic Analysis of AEC News in an English Newspaper for Language Learning and Teaching

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

An Analysis of Dialogic Positioning in Online Commentaries

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