the power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van dijk 1996). this potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. the major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

The power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van Dijk 1996). This potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. The major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backg...

This thesis focuses on the role of design patterns in the design of the online newspaper genre. The research question put forth here is: How can design patterns be used to improve the online newspaper design process? Genre theory was applied to revile the structure and visual pattern of online newspaper design in an analysis of 85 Swedish online newspapers. Based on the results from the genre a...

The original impetus for this cross-linguistic study came from a need to explore the effect of cultural factors and generic conventions on the use and distribution of metadiscourse within a single genre. To this end, the study as a contrastive rhetoric research, examined a corpus of 60 newspaper editorials (written in English and Persian) culled from 10 elite newspapers in America and Iran. Bas...

Over the last two decades, the cultural and cognitive artifacts that information and communication technologies circulate have become entangled with human and technical actors to the point of inseparability. These entanglements are primarily driven by the proliferation and wide adoption of online and mobile technologies. As a result, we discern the migration of previously physical artifacts to ...

Editorial is considered as a discursive genre of the English-language press. The concept was developed by M. Montgomery on example mass media texts and allows us to combine approach considering genre, one hand, recurrent stable structure, other emphasize its mobility variability. It argued that this especially relevant for due existing difficulties in developing their typology determining statu...

Editorial is an important part of newspapers since the opinions expressed can influence reader's point view. The two major Indonesian news media that publish editorials in their are Kompas and Tempo. This study explores potential differences editorial characters between Tempo regarding 2024 election issue. To achieve this goal, organizational structure texts examined attitudinal tendencies inve...

This thesis describes and analyzes implications of going from hypertext news to hypermedia news through a process of design, involving users and producers. As in any product development, it is difficult to conceive design of a novel news format that does not relate to earlier genres, and thus to antecedent designs. The hypothesis is that this problem can be addressed by explicitly taking a genr...

The digital version of the newspaper broadsheet is the basis of an evolving genre capable of supporting more than just the presentation of electronic news. The phrase, “broadsheet genre”, refers to both the broadsheet form and the characteristics of the content presented in this form. When the content is electronic news, it is not unlike a print newspaper supplemented with video and radio compo...