A Contrastive Study on Rhetoric in Covid-19-Related News Headlines from Native and Non-Native English Online Newspapers
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21439173 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jitsuda Laongpol (Yala Rajabhat University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 47-61 |
| Publication date | 2021-03-24 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | 3L The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0128-5157 • E-ISSN: 2550-2247 |
| Publisher | Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM Press) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17576/3l-2021-2701-04 |
| OpenAlex | W3139174289 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 4 |
Rhetorical devices have been widely used in a variety of writing works including news headlines. These short messages are considered to be the first informative and persuasive product of news reports. This research aims to investigate what type of rhetoric was most frequently found in English news headlines and to compare the similarities and differences of the rhetorical aspects of the headlines taken from two major online news websites in England and Thailand. The 2-week corpus includes 594 coronavirus-related headlines: 351 headlines collected from the BBC and 243 from the Bangkok Post. All electronic news headlines are contrastively analysed based on Shams’s (2013) and Picello’s (2018) taxonomies. The findings reveal that there are twelve rhetorical devices found in these headlines. Alliteration noticeably marks the highest frequency among all rhetorical features, followed by metonymy, rhyme, depersonalization, rhetorical question, metaphor, hyperbole, pun and euphemism, cliché, allusion, and simile respectively. The combination of alliteration and metonymy is commonly found in news headline writing. However, allusion and simile are only found in the headlines from the Bangkok Post, but at very low frequencies. Furthermore, the metonymic uses in the headlines may reflect certain preferred ideologies of presenting coronavirus-related news between the two counterparts. Keywords: rhetoric; news headlines; online news websites; native and non-native countries; COVID-19
Alliteration · Allusion · Art · Euphemism · Headline · Hyperbole · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Metaphor · Metonymy · Newspaper · Poetry · Rhetoric · Rhetorical device · Rhetorical question · Rhyme · Simile · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Translation Studies and Practices
Multimodal news discourse and Covid-19
The Impact of Gender Differences and Two Event-Frames in English News Reports on Chinese Non-native English Learners' Emotions to Climate Change
EKSPRESI Kecemasan Netizen DI Media Sosial Facebook Tentang Pandemi Covid-19 (Netizens' Expressions of Anxiety on Facebook Social Media Regarding the Covid-19 Pandemic)
A Contrastive Study on Rhetoric in Covid-19-Related News Headlines from Native and Non-Native English Online Newspapers
Southern Thai dialects in the crafting of political lyrics
Covid-19 Insights and Linguistic Methods
A Contrastive Study on Rhetoric in Covid-19-Related News Headlines from Native and Non-Native English Online Newspapers
Words as Powerful Weapons
Negro, Black, Black African, African Caribbean, African American or what? Labelling African origin populations in the health arena in the 21st century
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |