One issue, two genres

A comparison of interactional metadiscourse in the news

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ID21200939
AuthorsYun Han Chen (National Taiwan Ocean University), Ju Chuan Huang (0000-0003-2303-5487, National Taiwan Ocean University)
Year2023
Volume14
Issue1
Pages47-69
Publication date2023-03-14
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePragmatics and Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1878-9714 • E-ISSN: 1878-9722
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ps.19024.che
OpenAlexW4324157351
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited33

This study compares the use of interactional metadiscourse in a British newspaper, the Daily Mail, and a British news magazine, The Economist, in reporting on the Brexit referendum. We adopted Hyland’s ( 2005a : 48–54) framework to analyze hedges, boosters, attitude markers, engagements, and self-mentions. One hundred news articles were randomly selected from online archives from February to June in 2016, during which time the debatable issue was discussed ardently. Quantitative and qualitative results of this study revealed both similarities and differences between the newspaper and the news magazine in the use of interactional metadiscourse. For example, quantitatively, the frequencies of boosters in both genres were similar; however, the newspaper used much more engagement markers and self-mentions whereas the magazine used more hedges and attitude markers. Qualitatively, while most self-mentions were the same in both genres, a unique choice of self-mentions was found in the news magazine

Advertising · Argumentative · Brexit · European union · Linguistics · Media studies · Metadiscourse · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Referendum · Sociology · Digital Communication and Language · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology

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