This study explored a discourse analysis of the online newspapers reportage news about COVID-19 using Van Dijk’s parameters and J. Austin’s speech acts concepts. To do this, 91 stories were retrieved from two Nigerian newspapers. An search was conducted keywords: ‘Coronavirus in Nigeria’, ‘updates on Coronavirus ‘COVID-19 Nigeria November to December 2021’. The total articles consisting ‘news’,...

W oter an Att eeldt Wouter van Atteveldt http://vanatteveldt.com http://content-analysis.org Semantic Network Analysis is a technique in which the content of a message (such as a newspaper article) is extracted from text and represented as a network of semantic relations between actors and issues, which can be queried to look for specific patterns and answer various research questions. This tec...

Based on Fairclough’s three-dimensional and Van Dijk’s “ideological square” model of Critical Discourse Analysis, this study is aimed to analyze a self-built corpus which comprised 29 news reports extracted from western newspapers 48 Chinese under the approach discursive practice, power ideology. To that end, analysis conducted comparative keywords key clusters lists, collocations “China is, Ch...

We present a series of experiments on automatically identifying the sense of implicit discourse relations, i.e. relations that are not marked with a discourse connective such as “but” or “because”. We work with a corpus of implicit relations present in newspaper text and report results on a test set that is representative of the naturally occurring distribution of senses. We use several linguis...

The pandemic has intensified issues faced by the journalism community in Malaysia. This study is an attempt to help media industries upskill themselves terms of written discourse. describes rhetorical structures Malaysian newspaper reports, namely Star, moves and steps using genre theory, corpus-based discourse analysis corpus analysis. MyCORONAS (Malaysian Corpus Online Newspaper Articles) 90 ...

In this study, Van Dijk’s (1998) model of CDA was utilized in order to examine the representation of Iran’s nuclear program in editorials published by British news casting companies. The analysis of the editorials was carried out at two levels of headlines and full text stories with regard to the linguistic features of lexical choices, nominalization, passivization, overcompleteness, and voice....

This article argues for a cultural perspective to be brought to bear on studies of climate change risk perception. Developing the "circuit of culture" model, the article maintains that the producers and consumers of media texts are jointly engaged in dynamic, meaning-making activities that are context-specific and that change over time. A critical discourse analysis of climate change based on a...

From the perspective of systemic functional linguistics (SFL), lexical metaphors are recognized as a resource for enacting interpersonal meaning in discourse. Within the APPRAISAL framework, they constitute a means for ‘provoking’ an attitudinal interpretation. While the interpersonal function of lexical metaphors is well recognized in SFL, there have been relatively few studies that focus spec...

Machine translation between any two languages requires the generation of information that is implicit in the source language. In translating from Chinese to English, tense and other temporal information must be inferred from other grammatical and lexical cues. Moreover, Chinese multiple-clause sentences may contain inter-clausal relations (temporal or otherwise) that must be explicit in English...