Conflict – Crisis Hierarchy in English News Discourse: Cognitive Rhetorical Perspective

Q2 Arts and Humanities

Research in Language Pub Date : 2020-03-30 DOI:10.18778/1731-7533.18.1.04

S. Potapenko, O. Shcherbak

引用次数: 1

Abstract

The paper argues that in English on-line news the meanings of the conflict and crisis terms serve as reference points for the construction of a confrontation hierarchy. It is based on the interaction of the relations of force, serving as primes for meaning formation, with three levels of discourse prominence meant to attract, focus and keep the addressee’s attention in headings, headlines and throughout the text respectively. It is found that news stories arrange the units of conflict – crisis hierarchy according to three patterns: zoom-in, offering a detailed textual representation of confrontation with support of the argumentation sections of evidence, explanation or commentary; zoom-out, generalizing on the forces, underlying confrontation construction; multiperspectivation, aimed at a multifaceted representation of conflict – crisis hierarchy.

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英语新闻语篇中的冲突-危机层次:认知修辞视角

本文认为，在英语网络新闻中，冲突和危机术语的含义可以作为构建对抗层次的参考点。它以力量关系的相互作用为基础，作为意义形成的基础，具有三个层次的话语突出，分别在标题、标题和整个文本中吸引、集中和保持收件人的注意力。研究发现，新闻故事按照三种模式排列冲突-危机层次的单元：放大，在证据、解释或评论的论证部分的支持下，提供对抗的详细文本表现；缩小视野，以偏概全，构建底层对抗；多视角，旨在对冲突-危机等级制度进行多方面的表述。

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Research in Language Arts and Humanities-Language and Linguistics

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期刊介绍： Research in Language (RiL) is an international journal committed to publishing excellent studies in the area of linguistics and related disciplines focused on human communication. Language studies, as other scholarly disciplines, undergo two seemingly counteracting processes: the process of diversification of the field into narrow specialized domains and the process of convergence, strengthened by interdisciplinarity. It is the latter perspective that RiL editors invite for the journal, whose aim is to present language in its entirety, meshing traditional modular compartments, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, and offer a multidimensional perspective which exposes varied but relevant aspects of language, e.g. the cognitive, the psychological, the institutional aspect, as well as the social shaping of linguistic convention and creativity.