scholarly journals VAGUENESS AND DISSOCIATION IN ENGLISH POLITICAL NEWS DISCOURSE

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 65-76
Author(s):  
Katarina Damjanić
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
English Language ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Discourse Interpretation ◽  
Newspaper Articles

The main goal of this paper is to indicate the importance of the issues of vagueness and dissociation in discourse interpretation. The discourse that is taken into consideration is the discourse of political news written in the English language. This particular discourse is widely available to readers and deals with important political issues, which is why the choice of words and phrases should ideally be unbiased and accurate. If not, the readers may misinterpret the discourse and have a wrong impression of the political issue. In this research, newspaper articles are taken as an example of political news discourse. All articles analyzed were written in online British and American broadsheet and tabloid newspapers and they all dealt with the migrant crisis and 2019 Hong Kong protests. By taking into consideration the political context and the theoretical framework used in this research, 44 instances considered to be examples of vagueness and dissociation were identified, which were found in 14 newspaper articles.

scholarly journals A Study on Application of Ideology of Power in Different News Genres Based on Van Dijk’s Theory of Ideology

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 149
Author(s):  
Azadeh Keshvardoost
Keyword(s):  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Power Relation ◽  
The Other ◽  
Single Type ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Almost All ◽  
International Sport ◽  
Descriptive Method

<em>Studying news texts has been of interest of researches since some decades ago. However the researches and studies in this filed has been mostly focused on analyzing the news discourse and in some cases on compliance of linguistic principles. Almost all of these researches have been done without paying attention to the differences between different news fields (politic, economic, labor, cultural, international, sport, society and science) and all of them has been considered as one single type. This essay is due to study the effect of power relation in news discourse within Van Dijk’s theory of ideology and comparing it in different fields of news is the other goal of this research and in that framework, the relation of power will be studied in each of main genres and the result will be compared to recognize which field of news will be affected most by the relation of power and which of them will be affected less. This research will be done via analytic-descriptive method. The theoretical framework of this study is Van Dijk’s theory of ideology. Results show that the political news is affected by the relation of power most and scientific news is affected less.</em>

scholarly journals Partisan Disagreements Arising from Rationalization of Common Information

2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 477-492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin E. Lauderdale
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Experimental Demonstration ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Quantitative Evidence ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
Common Information ◽  
Political World

Why do opposing partisans sometimes disagree about the facts and processes that are relevant to understanding political issues? One explanation is that citizens may have a psychological tendency toward adopting beliefs about the political world that rationalize their partisan preferences. Previous quantitative evidence for rationalization playing a role in explaining partisan factual disagreement has come from cross-sectional covariation and from correction experiments. In this paper, I argue that these rationalizations can occur as side effects when citizens change their attitudes in response to partisan cues and substantively relevant facts about a political issue. Following this logic, I motivate and report the results of a survey experiment that provides US Republicans and Democrats with information that they will be inclined to rationalize in different ways, because they have different beliefs about which political actors they should agree with. The results are a novel experimental demonstration that partisan disagreements about the political world can arise from rationalization.

Macau martyr or Portuguese traitor? The Macanese communities of Macau, Hong Kong and Shanghai and the Portuguese nation

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (262) ◽  
pp. 754-768
Author(s):  
Catherine S Chan
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
English Language ◽  
Imagined Communities ◽  
The Political ◽  
Port Cities ◽  
Asian Community ◽  
Political Structures ◽  
Print Capitalism

Abstract This article rethinks a Luso-Asian community that existing literature has termed ‘Portuguese’ or ‘Macanese’ by exploring the differences between the Macanese communities of Macau, Hong Kong and Shanghai. It examines inter-port debates between 1926 and 1929 that triggered wide discussion in Portuguese and English-language newspapers regarding the political loyalty of the Macanese. Set against the framework of a burgeoning print capitalism and vibrant associational culture in Asia’s port-cities, the article argues that varying urban circumstances and political structures influenced the negotiation of the Macanese between imperial, civic and colonial identities to eventually construct three new imagined communities.

Hong Kong and Japan: Commerce, Culture and Contention

2003 ◽  
Vol 176 ◽  
pp. 1052-1067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Bridges
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Cultural Dimensions ◽  
Important Influence ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Relationship

This article analyses the nature of contemporary Hong Kong–Japan relations in their economic, political and cultural dimensions, setting the relationship within the broader context of Sino-Japanese relations, concerns about identity and nationalism within Hong Kong, and changing Japanese commercial priorities. While the commercial and popular cultural ties between Japan and Hong Kong remain dominant, since the mid-1990s political issues have become more visible in Hong Kong–Japan relations. Changing moods within Hong Kong about the handover and, after 1997, about the nature of the redefined relationship with China have had an important influence on the political economy of Hong Kong–Japan relations.

scholarly journals Towards the Uniform Civil Code and Personal Laws in India: Gender Equality Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdul Alim
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Family Life ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Religious Communities ◽  
Legal Issue ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
National Integration ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Personal Law

Family life and personal law in India express together a complex blend of historical, philosophical and political aspects. Family law is setting out a framework for thinking about how personal life affects the most profound aspects of our lives and communities. But the political issues are facing problematic as politician are not in favor of this because fear of losing their vote bank. There is not only political issue but also legal issue. Again, in the matters of personal law segment pertaining to marriage, dowry, divorce, adoption, legitimacy, wills, and inheritance each individual of different backgrounds must appeal to their respective religious laws for guidance or rulings. In a modern secular India, balancing the claims of religious communities in secular nature has caused some difficult problems as a nation. The author will scrutinize how personal laws in secular India provides an inclusive look into the issues and challenges and what extent State can interfere in the matters of religion so as to remove the hindrance in the governance. This article will also analyze the basis of national integration by removing disparate reliability on law which has conflicting ideologies of gender equality.

scholarly journals Analisis Wacana Kritis Berita Politik dalam Surat Kabar Koran Kaltim

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-30
Author(s):  
Jihan Alfira ◽  
Widyatmike Gede Mulawarman ◽  
Syamsul Rijal
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Mass Media ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
The Political ◽  
Note Taking ◽  
Data Presentation ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Government Perspective

This study aims to describe the form of language expression and the political news discourse perspective of Koran Kaltim using Roger Fowler's model. In using Roger Fowler's analysis, clarification can be seen how the same event is translated into different languages. These different words are not seen as technical but are seen as an ideological practice. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study. Sources of data used in this research are journalistic products of printed mass media, namely Koran Kaltim. Data collection techniques are reading, listening, and note-taking techniques. The data presentation technique in this study contains an explanation of the forms of language expression and perspective. Overall the results of the study show the following two conclusions. First, the forms of language expression based on political news discourse modalities include necessity modality, desire modality, truth modality as well as various types of metaphors. This form of language expression represents the views, values, ideas and beliefs of journalists in the Kaltim newspaper. Second, the pro-government perspective dominates the political news in the Kaltim newspaper.

Political news in search engines

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guillén Torres ◽  
Richard Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Search Engine ◽  
Search Engines ◽  
The Political ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Parliamentary Elections ◽  
Political News ◽  
Run Up ◽  
Political Spectrum

The research enquires into the susceptibility of Google’s search engine to provide users with questionable information when querying political parties and their issues during the run-up to the Dutch provincial and European parliamentary elections. Which rankings has the search engine assigned to problematic sources when querying political parties and their issues? Are there particular political issues and party spaces where these sources are prevalent or entirely absent? Do the ranks and amounts increase as the elections draw near? In all, it was found that hyperpartisan sources are rather pervasive in the search-demarcated political space, but far more so for certain actors and their issues on the far right of the political spectrum.

scholarly journals FEAR RHETORIC IN THE ONLINE NEWS DISCOURSE ON THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC IN TEUN VAN DIJK’S CRITICAL DISCOURSE ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dery Rovino ◽  
Fadhilah Nur Afifah ◽  
Tiara Aqwya Aningrum Kusuma Wardani
Keyword(s):  
Critical Discourse Analysis ◽  
News Media ◽  
English Language ◽  
Online News ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Language Choices ◽  
Discourse Model ◽  
Sentence Construction ◽  
Online Newspaper ◽  
Newspaper Articles

The news media, once thought to be only as a tool of information delivery, has subtly shifted its roles as an agent of (de)constructing thoughts, introducing, or denoting fear especially in appalling news. This raises a question whether the news on the COVID-19 pandemic is only for transmitting news updates on the pandemic condition or agenda-driven. However, research tapping into the imbued messages in language complexity in this context seems minimal. This study aims to uncover the language elements that sign fear in a news text. This research focuses on how fear is imbued in three online English-language newspaper articles in Indonesia published by the Jakarta Post, thereby the rhetoric of fear. The three articles discussed the spread of COVID-19 in Indonesia.  In this study, CDA is devised to reveal the traces of fear-embedded language choices found in the three online newspaper articles. Researchers used the critical analysis discourse model of Teun A. Van Dijk (1993) and the three elements of discourse (1993): micro, macro, and superstructure. Findings indicated that there were common uses of euphemism, dysphemism, and orthophemism to refine the language being conveyed. This study classified euphemism into five objectives: (1) evasive maneuver to prevent mass panic; (2) speech refinement to soften offence, insults, and/ or other language expressions that may result to humiliation; (3) diplomacy tool; (4) language replacement for taboo or vulgar language choices or those endowed with negative connotation (5) tool for satire, sarcasm and subtle criticism. This study also revealed some linguistic decisions, such as lexicon choices and strategies on sentence construction, subtly evident not only to impose fear, but at the same time to dispose it. Researchers hope that this study may assist the readers in pinpointing subtleties in author’s tone and tendency.

scholarly journals STRUKTUR WACANA BERITA POLITIK SURAT KABAR PALOPO POS

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
NFN Suparman
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Research Data ◽  
The Political ◽  
Micro Structure ◽  
Political News ◽  
News Discourse ◽  
Qualitative Descriptive ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Discourse Strategy

This study aims to describe the macro structure, superstructure, and micro structure of political news discourse in the Palopo Pos newspaper. This type of research is a qualitative descriptive study. The data source of this research is the political news discourse in Palopo Pos newspaper 23 and 24 February 2018. The research data are excerpts, words, clauses, phrases, sentences, and discourse contained in the political news of Palopo Pos newspaper 23 and 24 February 2018. The object of this research is the macro structure, superstructure, and micro structure of political news discourse. Data obtained by reading and note taking techniques. The results of research on the political news Palopo Pos published 23 and 24 February 2018 are divided into three structures, namely the macro structure, superstructure, and micro structure. In the research on the micro structure of news text discourse, many attitudes of journalists were found to support the Palopo Pos political news text discourse. This shows that the ideology of a journalist greatly influences the formation of a news text. Journalists disguise their alignments in the news discourse by using these elements. With the discourse strategy, journalists can implicitly or explicitly state their ideology and guide public opinion in the direction journalists expect.

scholarly journals The conversation on political issues on Twitter: an analysis of the participation and frames in the debate on the 'Wert law' and evictions in Spain

2016 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 311
Author(s):  
Pedro Luis Pérez Díaz ◽  
Celia Berná Sicilia ◽  
Enrique Arroyas Langa
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Education Law ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Debate ◽  
Political Issue ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
Social Agents ◽  
Analysis Techniques ◽  
Mainstream Media ◽  
The Relationship

The aim of this study is to determine which social agents are involved in the political debate on Twitter and whether the interpretive hegemony of actors that have traditionally been the most prominent is tempered by the challenge of framing shared with audiences. The relationship between the interpretations expressed and the profiles of participants is analyzed in comparison with the frames used by mainstream media. The chosen methodology combines content analysis and discourse analysis techniques on a sample of 1,504 relevant tweets posted on two political issues –the approval of the education law LOMCE and the evictions caused by the crisis, which have also been studied in the front pages of four leading newspapers in Spain. The results show a correlation between political issue singularities, frames and the type of discussion depending on the participants.

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