Unveiling the writer–reader interaction in Peninsular Spanish and American English newspaper editorials: A cross linguistic study

Maddalena, Antonello; Belmonte, Isabel Alonso

doi:10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.026

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“…This includes five framing devices: metaphors, exemplars, catchphrases, depictions, and visual images (Gamson & Modigliani, 1989). Though some scholars treat editorials and columns as "markedly different," others regard them as falling under the "same genre" (Alonso & Maddalena, 2011: 2) so there is "insignificant difference of both types of argumentative texts" (Oktaviantia & Adnanb, 2020: 110). Bell classifies news into hard, soft (features, lifestyle) and editorial "sort of argumentative" (Oktaviantia & Adnanb, 2020: 110).…”

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The presentation of South African politicians in The Times newspaper column “On the Contrary”: 2012-2017

Roya

Ngcobo

2023

IJRBS

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This paper examined South African politicians' (re)presentation in Tony Leon’s regular column, On the contrary, which appeared in The Times newspaper from 2012 to 2017. This period in South African politics is made interesting by the fact that it coincides with the time when there was mounting pressure for the then president, Jacob Zuma, of the ruling party, the African National Congress (ANC), to step down, especially between 7 January 2015 and 21 March 2017. Tony Leon, who also once served as a councilor for the Democratic Party (DA), one of the major opposition parties in South Africa is the columnist who at the time authors the on the contrary column. This creates interesting research on how the columnist and the newspaper are able or not to maintain ethical journalism. In conducting the study, this article employs the framing theory and critical discourse analysis (CDA) as research tools to assess the columnists’ objectivity and bias in his depiction of the then president and several prominent politicians during the examined period. Data analysis constitutes six newspaper articles which were purposively selected to obtain a representative sample. The results indicated that these articles were well-researched in respect of the information they presented. At the same time, biased tendencies were noted in favor of the political party aligned to the columnist.

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Section: The Editorial Pagementioning

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The presentation of South African politicians in The Times newspaper column “On the Contrary”: 2012-2017

Roya

Ngcobo

2023

IJRBS

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“…Finally, we would also like to focus on some of the research carried out concerning the use of language in newspapers. Readers tend to think that newspapers inform us about real events and that the information included in them should be true, but the strategies to persuade or interact with readers have been of interest to several researchers, such as Dafouz-Milne (2008), Maddalena and Alonso Belmonte (2011) or Marín-Arrese (2015). More specifically, the construction of Scottish identity has been examined by Douglas (2009), in an attempt to explain the way newspapers use the Scots language.…”

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Constructing legitimation in Scottish newspapers: The case of the independence referendum

Almeida

Pastor

2019

Discourse Studies

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This study is concerned with the use of epistemic legitimising strategies in online newspaper articles dealing with the Scottish referendum. In this sense, we seek to explore cases of epistemic stance that indicate epistemological positioning and persuade readers of the veracity of propositions. Our study covers Scottish journal articles published online within 5 days prior to results day. In this article, we are interested in the way the Scottish newspapers deal with the topic of the independence referendum and the degree of commitment in journalists’ choice of linguistic strategies. We analysed the newspaper articles manually but corpus tools were also used in order to verify initial findings and for statistical purposes. The results of the use of epistemic stance devices in the different categories were contrasted and our conclusions showed the preferred legitimising strategies used by journalists in the Scottish newspapers.

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“…Articles in the daily newspapers were collected from Access World News. The New York Times is one of the most-examined and elite media sources in the intermedia agenda-setting literature (Ford & King, 2015: Zoch et al, 2014Winder & Schmitt, 2014;Lihua, 2012;Shie, 2011;Fernandes et al, 2014;Maddalena & Belmonte;Kushin, 2010;McDonnell et al, 2008). The New York Times has been suggested in former studies to be a leader in terms of its prominence and influence on other media outlets.…”

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First and Second Level Intermedia Agenda-Setting between International Newspapers and Twitter during the Coverage of the 266th Papal Election

Bakan¹,

Melek²

2018

Akdeniz Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Dergisi

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This article's main purpose is to understand whether the intermedia agenda-setting effect occurs between the online versions of international newspapers and Twitter during the Papal election in 2013. The researchers have tracked each available country's trending topics on Twitter to understand the popularity of the subject in various countries. The researchers then followed each country available on Twitter at the time when the study was conducted, starting right after the announcement of the new Pope at the Sistine Chapel in Vatican on 12 March 2013 till 15 March 2013 for four days and collected all available data. Later, the researchers collected data from the websites of international newspapers, The New York Times, The Daily Mail, The Guardian, The Telegraph and The Wall Street Journal. Two computer-based content analysis were conducted. In order to understand the relationship amongst these media entities, the cross-lagged panel design with the Rozelle-Campbell (1969) baseline was used. In the end, researchers examined the second level agenda setting effect between media by looking into what was said about the Papal election-positive, negative, or neutral. The results supported both first and second-level agenda setting influence between media.

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Unveiling the writer–reader interaction in Peninsular Spanish and American English newspaper editorials: A cross linguistic study

Cited by 12 publications

References 11 publications

The presentation of South African politicians in The Times newspaper column “On the Contrary”: 2012-2017

The presentation of South African politicians in The Times newspaper column “On the Contrary”: 2012-2017

Constructing legitimation in Scottish newspapers: The case of the independence referendum

First and Second Level Intermedia Agenda-Setting between International Newspapers and Twitter during the Coverage of the 266th Papal Election

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