On the functions of sort of in New Zealand TV programs

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-61
Author(s):  
Peyman G. P. Sabet
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Effective Media ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
Tv Program ◽  
Range Of Functions ◽  
The Media ◽  
A Current

Abstract Sort of is a pragmatic particle with a range of functions in different contexts. There are different factors which can contribute to its varied functions. Focusing on the media discourse, this study investigates the frequency and pragmatic functions of sort of in New Zealand English. Based on the analysis of the data from a current affairs TV program, the study shows that sort of is a pragmatic particle under-used in this discourse type. The analysis of its pragmatic functions demonstrates that right amount of information and mitigation fulfill a substantial proportion of sort of functions. The other two functions, avoidance and discourse management, are less frequent, but still perform important roles in effective media communication.

scholarly journals The suitcase, the samurai sword and the Pumpkin: Asian crime and NZ news media treatment

2008 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 183-204
Author(s):  
Sarah Baker ◽  
Jeanie Benson
Keyword(s):  
Domestic Violence ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
News Media ◽  
Chinese Student ◽  
High Profile ◽  
First Case ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Media ◽  
Young Daughter

In 2005 and 2007, two high profile crimes were reported in the New Zealand media. The first case invovled the murder of a young Chinese student, Wan Biao, whose dismembered body was discovered in a suitcase. The second case involved domestic violence in which a Chinese man murdered his wife and fled the scene with their young daughter— who the press later dubbed 'Pumpkin' when she was found abandoned in Melbourne, Australia. The authors discuss how news and current affairs programmes decontextualise 'Asian' stories to portray a clear divide between the 'New zealand' public and the separate 'Asian other'. Asians are portrayed as a homogenous group and the media fails to distinguish between Asians as victims of crimes as a separate category to Asians as perpetrators of crimes. This may have consequences for the New Zealand Asian communities and the wider New Zealand society as a whole. 

scholarly journals The Category of Masculinity in the Polish Media Discourse on Robert Lewandowski

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-27
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Arcimowicz
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Body Type ◽  
Discursive Strategies ◽  
Media Messages ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Polish Language ◽  
The Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Discourse Historical Approach

The fundamental objective of the studies was to reconstruct and analyze the category of masculinity in the media discourse that refers to Robert Lewandowski as well as to describe and interpret the most important discursive strategies used in creating the image of the footballer. The research material includes almost 120 Polish-language media messages: mainly Internet articles, commercial spots, and interviews, all of which appeared in the years 2013-2019. This article presents the results of the critical analysis of the discourse, including proposals of the discourse-historical approach. The prime theoretical framework of the studies is made up of the theory of hegemonic masculinity on the one hand and the theory of inclusive masculinity on the other, as well as the concept of caring masculinities. The discourse on Lewandowski is not homogeneous; it includes elements derived from different versions of masculinity. The discourse is divided into two parts: one connected with the professional sphere and the other referring to the private. The strategies describing the footballer’s professional life are quite conservative. The elements of the highest importance within this part of the discourse include hard work, success, rivalry, and the mesomorph body type. The part of the discourse referring to the footballer’s family life is dominated by the strategies connected with the concept of caring masculinities and the notion of egalitarian relationship even though it is not completely free from the traditional gender roles.

Crowdfunding research agenda: Semantic analysis of the media and geography of investments

2019 ◽  
pp. 1930001
Author(s):  
Israel José dos Santos Felipe ◽  
Wesley Mendes-Da-Silva ◽  
Cristiane Chaves Gattaz
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Semantic Analysis ◽  
The Other ◽  
Financial Returns ◽  
Regional Characteristics ◽  
Present Information ◽  
The Media ◽  
A Current ◽  
Made In

This paper proposes a current research agenda on crowdfunding from two different perspectives, mass media and geography. It is believed that these two elements must exert some kind of influence on the dynamics of the investments made in that market. Semantic analysis of mass news can be a useful tool for investors to assess their exposure to risk as well as help predict financial returns. Geography, on the other hand, can be used on the origin of the capital contributions and, therefore, present information on the location and regional characteristics of the investors.

scholarly journals Odcienie obcości. Wyniki sondażu „Polacy i inni 30 lat później” — analiza porównawcza (1988, 1998, 2018)

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-198
Author(s):  
Ewa Nowicka ◽  
Sławomir Łodziński
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
World Outlook ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Personal Experiences ◽  
Polish Society ◽  
The Media ◽  
Migration Crisis ◽  
The One

The aim of the article is to analyze selected results of the 2018 survey “Poles and Others after Thirty Years” on attitudes to the arrival of foreigners in Poland and to compare them with the results of analogous studies from 1988 and 1998. The authors suggest that the notion of “foreign” is becoming increasingly definite in the consciousness of Polish society. There is a noticeable decline in openness in regard to more foreigners coming to Poland and an increase in the number of people who are clearly opposed to foreigners. The authors argue that the current attitudes of the respondents could have been influenced, on the one hand, by their personal experiences, which in the last few years have begun to take the form of real (non-abstract) contact with foreigners (immigrants), and on the other hand, by the media discourse related to the migration crisis of 2015. In light of the research, open (inclusive) attitudes toward foreigners can not be reduced to simple yes or no answers but remain related to wider world-outlook complexes reflecting the shape of Polish society, which in recent years has experienced the effects of immigration.

scholarly journals Ordinary media communication as a socio-speech sphere: The problem statement and the boundaries of manifestation

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-34
Author(s):  
Nikolai D. Golev ◽  
◽  
Nadezhda N. Shpil’naia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Native Speakers ◽  
Linguistic Community ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Discursive Practices ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Communicative Context ◽  
Speech Events ◽  
Communicative Space

The object of consideration in the article is the communicative space of the linguistic community, which can be represented as a set of socio-speech spheres. The subject of the research of the article is the ordinary media communication as a socio-speech sphere with its inherent discursive practices and genre forms of their implementation. The article defines the boundaries of the manifestation of everyday media communication. The sphere of ordinary media communication is differentiated on the basis of two oppositions, taking into account a type of linguistic personality and a type of communicative context: a professional/nonprofessional linguistic personality, a natural/artificial communicative context. On this basis, the following manifestations of ordinary media communication are distinguished as follows: nonprofessional everyday media discourse, pseudo-media discourse, everyday professional media discourse. On the basis of the typology of speech events as narrative, declarative and representative, discursive practices are distinguished into event-ideas, referential and textual events. Narrative discursive practices actualize textual events. They recreate a textual event as a communicative event that is delayed in time. These discursive practices are implemented in the genres of everyday conversation and private history. The declarative discursive practices are related to the actualization of the referential events. This is a manifestation of the reflective activities of native speakers, the result of which is their judgments on the media activities: issues of media activity, about their work, etc. These discursive practices are implemented in the genres of media myths and superstitious media features. The representative discursive practices actualize event-ideas, presenting an interpretation of various media events. The article considers such genres of their implementation as media anecdotes, media commentary and the media “note” genre as the implementation of pseudo-media discourse.

scholarly journals Mainstream Media Discourse! Or the Divine Word of the Postmodern?

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 40-73
Author(s):  
Yasser Rhimi
Keyword(s):  
Media Coverage ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Investigative Reporting ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
Objective Truth ◽  
Exponential Increase ◽  
The Media ◽  
Ultimate Ground

Abstract This paper calls into question the growing tendency of quasi-absolutism within postmodern mainstream media discourse under the guise of objectivity. The tendency’s major aim is to ascribe more believability to its discourse by re-presenting that which it covers as the vehicle of objective truth to the mainstream audience. Two interweaving discourses have marked such objectivity: one in the form of indoctrinating and omnipresent narratives, which via effective propaganda become tantamount to ritualism, the other epitomised in the nostalgia for rationalisation, already inherent in western positivist thought through the exponential increase of quasi-empiricism (e.g. investigative reporting or speculative statistics). Accordingly, what the media cover exists. What they do not remains in the order of myth. The article starts by rethinking objectivity within modern western academia, a discourse whose objectivity is already flawed from within. Then, with respect to human experience and media coverage, the paper concludes by raising the question of postmodern mainstream media’s substitution of religious quasi-absolutist narratives, be they secular or non-secular. Subjectivity thus emerges as the ultimate ground upon which our being may be legitimate.

Conflicts Between Words, Images and Reality in Contemporary Advertising

2019 ◽  
pp. 106-125
Author(s):  
Dušan Kučera
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Original Meaning ◽  
The Media ◽  
Words And Images ◽  
The One ◽  
Changing Role

The aim of the chapter is to reflect on the contemporary trends in marketing and advertising. The discussion starts with the changes in media communication and concentrates on the changing role of marketing, its forms and especially its language, as reflected in advertising. The contribution describes the developments in marketing and advertisement in the last years, the current trends and the limits of text analysis in digital marketing communication today. The main aim is to show how far the words and images change the original meaning of words. Local examples from the Czech Republic show the shift in marketing approaches and their consequences. Selected literature sources have been consulted to deal with the abundance of information, on the one hand, and the loss of significance in the media communication, on the other hand.

Setting the agenda in a distant nation: The 2016 US presidential election in a New Zealand newspaper

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-161
Author(s):  
Shah Nister Kabir
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Presidential Election ◽  
Republican Party ◽  
Democratic Party ◽  
The Other ◽  
Hillary Clinton ◽  
Donald Trump ◽  
The Media ◽  
Us Presidential Election ◽  
Media Outlet

AbstractExamining the coverage of the 2016 US Presidential election of the highest circulating New Zealand newspaper—the New Zealand Herald (NZH)—this study argues that this newspaper sets agenda against Donald Trump—the Republican Party candidate in the 2016 US election. Examining all news, editorials and photographs published in NZH, it discursively argues that this newspaper overshadowed and dehumanized Trump and especially his leadership ability. The other major candidate—the Democratic Party candidate Hillary Clinton—was applauded in the coverage. The NZH repeatedly focused upon the activities of Trump through news, views and images to dehumanize him. The repetition, therefore, does not necessarily mean that a particular media outlet favors a particular candidate. It also argues that the media outlet of a distant nation that cannot influence its reader to vote for a particular candidate may still set the agenda in favor of a candidate.

scholarly journals Internal Converse in Modern Media Discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 150-158
Author(s):  
Olga Prokhvatilova
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Direct Speech ◽  
Linguistic Markers ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Texts

The article reveals specificity of internal converse practice in the media discourse. The converse is defined as a speech-and-cognitive category that characterizes a constructive principle of the media text manifested in insertion of other person's utterances into the monospeech of a journalist. It is stated that the major means of converse practice is citing direct speech of some other person, which enables precise marking of citation boundaries in media texts. The other person's utterance insertion is marked by the use of reporting verbs that nominate processes of saying or communication in oral or written forms of media discourse, indicating the source of citation with introductory constructions, as well as the names and nicknames of radio listeners who sent their questions. Direct speech may be introduced into the author's text without any special linguistic markers. The sources of quoting relevant for the media text are revealed, including radio listeners, journalists, writers, economists, public and political figures, heroes of modern books and popular movies, mass media. Four functions of the cited utterances are considered relevant for the modern media text: compositional, authoritarian, interpretive and constructive. The types of converse relations that arise between the author's and other person's cited speech are determined.

scholarly journals Humour as an information-influencing resource in mass media

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Liliya Rashidovna Duskaeva
Keyword(s):  
Mass Media ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Cognitive Effort ◽  
Stylistic Analysis ◽  
Public Officials ◽  
Media Communication ◽  
Effective Media ◽  
The Media ◽  
Expression Form

The purpose of this paper is to show how humour is involved in creating effective media communication. The research method is a stylistic analysis of the media text through establishing the manifestations of humour in its compositional components – paratext, metatext, and intratext. The paper reveals the manifestations of two types of irony – ridicule and banter – in these text components. It is established that banter is a means to demonstrate the event distantly, to reduce unnecessary pathos in the speech of top public officials, and to emphasize public contradictions indirectly. Language markers of banter are most often found in the metatext. In such forms of irony, veiled references and hints are expressed which require an additional cognitive effort to understand. The feelings that motivate irony are hidden behind a mask, and are the opposite of the implied ones expressed in the text: for example, indignation is hidden behind surprise and bewilderment. Banter is typical of business mass media, where every event is transmitted distantly. Ridicule is characteristic of sociopolitical mass media. It is expressed in the conflict charge of the media text – the desire to discredit the object of speech, and often acts as a means of transmitting alienation, demonstrating categorical opposition of one’s position to another’s. Ridicule is created by the saturation of negative-evaluative means, most often manifested in the expression of anger and indignation, which determine ridicule. The text markers of tonality, evaluation and degree of indirect expression form the basis of reading the modality character – i.e. badinage.

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