The pragmatics of news actor labelling in media discourse: A case study

RESEARCH RESULT Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Pub Date : 2021-12-30 DOI:10.18413/2313-8912-2021-7-4-0-3

S. Velikova

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Media discourse is a pervasive phenomenon that entails diverse social interactions mediated through linguistic and paralinguistic means in spoken and written medium. This paper aims to focus on media discourse, in particular on online news sites, and to explore the linguistic means of news actor labelling in news stories. The pragmatic value of some referring expressions used to name news actors in news media is further examined. The first part of the article provides a review of research on the “act of naming” in news discourse and the various linguistic resources utilized by writers for referring to news actors. The second part of the paper presents a case study that looks closely at the representations of news actors in news articles from online news sites of four British newspapers – The Guardian, The Independent, The Mirror, and The Sun. The results of the case study revealed various patterns of news actor labelling that are consistent with Jucker‟s (1996) classification. The study concludes that the journalist‟s preference for one referring expression over another in the news story has a powerful role in construing newsworthiness, in amplifying audience engagement, in influencing their perceptions of the news content, and in channeling their meaning construction process.

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媒体话语中新闻演员标签的语用研究:个案研究

媒介话语是一种普遍存在的现象，涉及通过口头和书面媒介中的语言和副语言手段介导的各种社会互动。本文旨在关注媒体话语，特别是在线新闻网站，并探讨新闻故事中新闻演员标签的语言手段。本文进一步探讨了新闻媒体中一些指称新闻行为者的语用价值。文章的第一部分回顾了新闻语篇中的“命名行为”的研究，以及作者在指称新闻演员时所使用的各种语言资源。论文的第二部分提出了一个案例研究，仔细研究了四家英国报纸——《卫报》、《独立报》、《镜报》和《太阳报》——在线新闻网站上的新闻文章中新闻演员的表现。案例研究的结果揭示了新闻演员标签的各种模式，这些模式与Jucker(1996)的分类一致。研究得出结论，记者在新闻报道中对一种指称表达的偏好在构建新闻价值、扩大受众参与、影响他们对新闻内容的看法以及引导他们的意义构建过程中发挥着强大的作用。

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