scholarly journals Pragmatic functions of interrogatives in media texts

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 501-515
Author(s):  
Irina N. Ivanova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Semantic Features ◽  
Interactive Model ◽  
Subjective Interpretation ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Active Commitment ◽  
The Way

A number of approaches to media texts tend to apply an interactive model to communication, and the texts are seen are intrinsically dialogic, relying on the receivers’ subjective interpretation of meaning and activation of intertextual relations. In addition, media texts are increasingly used as material for linguistic analysis with the aim to reveal how their linguistic potential is utilized by journalists to convey messages and ideas, and influence the audience. The paper discusses the pragmatic functions of interrogatives and the way they are realized in media text, more specifically in newspaper articles’ headlines, leads and bodies excerpted from British and American online media over a period of two months. The analysis is mapped against previous research of interrogatives in the field of pragmatics and medialinguistics. The main findings show that interrogatives in headlines realize a range of pragmatic roles when used on their own or as part of paratactic or hypotactic complexes. These roles are closely dependent on their syntactic and semantic features and can range from attracting and focusing readers’ attention, to urging readers to think about issues, look for certain types of answers in the text, or think of their own answers or reactions. Headlines can be expanded or clarified in the sub-headings, lead and main body of the article. In the main body, interrogatives help to structure and authenticate writer’s dialogue with the audience, making the narrative or argumentation more emphatic, and soliciting active commitment to issues, feedback and empathy from the audience. Furthermore, some topics of high public interest and importance might lead to an increase in the number of questions in media texts. Further research of larger and more varied thematically material might throw light on the way different topics affect the frequency and distribution of pragmatic roles of interrogatives in media texts.

Linguistic Elements as Tools for the Analysis of Media Narratives

2021 ◽  
pp. 63-77
Author(s):  
Jolita Horbacauskiene
Keyword(s):  
Social Problems ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Media Narratives ◽  
The Way

A close linguistic analysis of media discourse might provoke and provide useful information regarding the power of media itself and the way people construct meanings. The present study seeks to explore how social problems are reflected in media texts. The representation of social problems—crime, poverty, migrant crisis, as well as minority groups—contains linguistic elements which are aimed at constructing certain images of these issues. Figurative linguistic elements are used to enhance the reliability of the story, to appeal to the readers' emotions, and to manage the story and the sequence of the events which are being represented. A proper use of language in the representations social problems could be considered as an effective tool to keep readers interested in the story and transform it into one that is engaging and reliable at the same time.

scholarly journals Does the apple fall far from the tree?: reviewing the communication of scientific information about GMOs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Kirby
Keyword(s):  
Social Epistemology ◽  
Scientific Information ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
Online Media ◽  
Online Content ◽  
The Public ◽  
Understanding Of Science ◽  
Textual Content ◽  
The Way

Online content is changing the way the public accesses and understands science. The staggering number of often conflicting online sources about science makes it difficult for the lay public to know where to turn in search of accurate scientific information. This project will examine how the nature of online content might be affecting how the public learns about science. Through textual content analyses, it will examine the chain of communication (scientists→online media→public) and document how scientific information evolves. Okanagan Specialty Fruits’ Arctic apple, a genetically modified organism (GMO) that has had the polyphenol oxidase (PPO) gene silenced, will be used as a case study. Three primary themes guide my research: the public understanding of science (PUS), the communication of risk and uncertainty, and social epistemology. The primacy of the PUS movement in public venues for science makes it an important theory for my project, while theories of risk/uncertainty and social epistemology will inform my analysis. My results suggest that: 1) stories about science often include over and understatements of uncertainties and risks; 2) online media stories apply rhetorical frames when reporting scientific information, but the way in which framing is used appears to be reflective of whether the author wishes to persuade their audience; and 3) the rhetorical frames used by online stories about science are not typically integrated into the public’s commentary in a meaningful way, supporting the notion that audiences are active rather than passive and that the public seeks out content that complements their pre-existing beliefs.

scholarly journals The potentialities of corpus-based techniques for analyzing literature

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 28
Author(s):  
Khalid Shakir Hussein
Keyword(s):  
Linguistic Analysis ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Basic Question ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Corpus Linguistic ◽  
As I Lay Dying ◽  
Analytical Potential ◽  
The Waves ◽  
The Way

This paper presents an attempt to explore the analytical potential of five corpus-based techniques: concordances, frequency lists, keyword lists, collocate lists, and dispersion plots. The basic question addressed is related to the contribution that these techniques make to gain more objective and insightful knowledge of the way literary meanings are encoded and of the way the literary language is organized. Three sizable English novels (Joyc's Ulysses, Woolf's The Waves, and Faulkner's As I Lay Dying) are laid to corpus linguistic analysis. It is only by virtue of corpus-based techniques that huge amounts of literary data are analyzable. Otherwise, the data will keep on to be not more than several lines of poetry or short excerpts of narrative. The corpus-based techniques presented throughout this paper contribute more or less to a sort of rigorous interpretation of literary texts far from the intuitive approaches usually utilized in traditional stylistics.

scholarly journals Telaah Karakteristik Tafsir Arab-Pegon Al-Ibriz

2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 27
Author(s):  
Abu Rohkmad
Keyword(s):  
Body Text ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Long Period ◽  
The Way

Every time, a dialogue between the Quran and its readers happens; and<br />the long period process of such understanding has resulted thousands and<br />tons of interpretation books (kitab tafsir). One of them is Tafsir al-Ibriz by<br />K.H. Bisri Mustofa and is written in Arab Pegon (Javanese language and<br />Arabic letters). This article is discussing the characteristics of the book and<br />its method. Using descriptive analytic and hermeneutic interpretative, the study<br />goes to the conclusion that the book is organized according to tahlili method,<br />namely a method which explains Quranic verses words after words. The<br />meaning of the words is presented in makna gandul system (the meaning is<br />written under the words) while the interpretation and explanation (tafsir) is<br />written out of the main body text. In terms of characteristics, the way the Tafsir al-Ibriz explains the meaning of the Quran is considered as simple.<br />The approach applied in the book  doesn’t  tend to a particular interpretation style because it combines some different styles according to the contextual meanings; and this book belongs to traditional and ma’tsur category.

scholarly journals THEMATIC PROGRESSION IN RECOUNT TEXT WRITTEN BY THE EIGHT GRADE STUDENTS

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diamond Primo Philippus Purba ◽  
Siti Aisah Ginting ◽  
Fahri Haswani
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
English Teacher ◽  
Interactive Model ◽  
Reading Material ◽  
Thematic Progression ◽  
Model Technique ◽  
The Way ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge ◽  
Descriptive Qualitative

This study was about the theme, rheme and thematic progression of students‟ recount text of the eight grade at SMP RK Budi Mulia Pematangsiantar. The aim of this study were (1) to investigate thematic progression pattern used (2) to find out the reason why the students used thematic progression in the way they did. This study was conducted by using descriptive qualitative method. The data in this study were clauses of students‟ recount text. The instrument of collecting data was elicitation technique and interview. The data were analyzed by using interactive model technique of Miles, Huberman and Saldana (2014). The result of this study were the following, (1) There were two patterns of thematic progression used in students‟ recount text, they were Theme Reteration/Constant Theme Pattern (TR/CTP), and Zig-zag/Linear Theme Pattern (Zig-zag/LTP). (2) The reason in use of thematic progression by students, they were: (a) the student‟s lack of knowledge about use of the thematic progression, (b) they also less interested in writing, (c) the students got resources from reading material and (d) the students got resources from english teacher‟s explanation.Keywords: Theme, Rheme, Thematic Progression, Recount Text

The Way to Establish a Public-interest Corporation

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (12) ◽  
pp. P-363-P-363
Author(s):  
MITSURU AKASHI
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
The Way

Public Interest and Public Policy in Private Law

2019 ◽  
pp. 304-332
Author(s):  
John Gardner
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Private Law ◽  
Ronald Dworkin ◽  
The Way

This chapter first considers the thoughts of Ronald Dworkin, who sparked the contemporary fashion, among lawyers and legal theorists, for contrasting ‘arguments of principle’ with ‘arguments of policy’. Dworkin did not regard the two categories of argument as jointly exhaustive, even in the special setting of the courtroom. But he did regard them as mutually exclusive. The chapter also discusses the way in which the courts cannot responsibly avoid counting the consequences of their decisions, or at least some of the consequences of their decisions, for the decisions of future courts. This is followed by a discussion of legal instrumentalism.

22. Mergers (3): UK law

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Whish ◽  
David Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Public Interest ◽  
Merger Control ◽  
Phase 2 ◽  
Water Industry ◽  
Special Cases ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Way

This chapter provides an overview of the UK system of merger control and explains the procedure of the Competition and Markets Authority (‘the CMA’) when determining whether a merger should be referred for an in-depth ‘Phase 2’ investigation and when deciding to accept ‘undertakings in lieu’ of a reference. It describes how Phase 2 investigations are conducted and discusses the way in which the CMA applies the ‘substantially lessening competition’ (‘SLC’) test in practice. It then explains the enforcement powers in the Enterprise Act 2002, including the remedies that the CMA can impose in merger cases, and discusses various supplementary matters, such as powers of investigation and enforcement. The chapter concludes with a discussion of how the merger control provisions work in practice and provides a brief account of the provisions on public interest cases, other special cases and mergers in the water industry.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Star
Keyword(s):  
Distinctive Feature ◽  
Philosophy Of Mind ◽  
Philosophy Of Language ◽  
Contemporary Literature ◽  
Normative Reasons ◽  
Main Body ◽  
Language Philosophy ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
The Way

The purpose and plan of the Handbook is described herein. Key concepts in the contemporary literature on reasons and normativity are introduced, and the forty-four chapters that make up the main body of the Handbook are each summarized. In the process, important connections between the chapters are highlighted. A distinctive feature of the Handbook is said to be the way in which it surveys work on normative reasons in both ethics and epistemology, focusing, when appropriate, on issues concerning unity or lack of it in different domains. It is noted that discussions of reasons and normativity in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and aesthetics are also surveyed in the Handbook.

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