The reporting verbs and bias in the press

Bibliographic Data

ID11396396
AuthorsAlan Floyd Moore (Universidade da Coruña, corresponding author)
Year2000
Issue13
Pages43
Publication date2000-11-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueRevista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0214-4808 • E-ISSN: 2171-861X
PublisherUniversidad de Alicante Servicio de Publicaciones (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14198/raei.2000.13.04
OpenAlexW1547492252
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited2

This article describes one way in which news reports, apparently neutral, subtly show the personal preferences of journalists. It shows 1he way different people are reported using different reporting verbs, thus prejudicing readers' opinions in favour of or against them. It matters considerably whether the reporting verb is "professed" or "claimed", which have negative connotations, or "explained", "announced" or "pointed out", which have a more positive sound to them. Depending on the context, others, such as "asserted", "stated", "concluded", "argued", "promised and "maintained", are more neutral. In general, those reported favourably respond to a profile of Western, official, elite, establishment speakers

Context (archaeology · Elite · Linguistics · Political science · Politics · Verb · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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