爱尔兰语境下对同性恋的评价与态度:2008年报纸文章评价模式的语料库辅助语篇分析

L. Bartley, Miguel-Ángel Benítez-Castro
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对报纸话语的分析为社会如何代表或歪曲某些社会参与者及其行为提供了有价值的见解。鉴于新闻散文中存在的偏见(Bednarek, 2006;White, 2006),发现针对特定少数民族的虐待证据并不罕见(Baker等人,2008;福勒,1991)。在本文中,与特定少数群体(即同性恋者)相关的意识形态立场在2008年被带到最前沿,当时爱尔兰充满活力的经济发生了戏剧性的恶化。巧合的是,这恰逢同性恋成为爱尔兰政治议程的中心议题,因为2008年标志着旷日持久的《民事伴侣法案》辩论的最后阶段。这篇论文的目的是提供见解如何评价语言可能反映爱尔兰社会的心态与LGBT社区。Martin & White(2005)的评价理论是高度相关和适用于这一目的的,因为它涵盖了社会尊重、社会制裁、个人态度和欣赏的概念,这些可以成为社会对时事的有力指标。本文采用的方法是语料库辅助语篇分析(Stubbs, 1996)。该数据集包括来自三份不同报纸的200,000多个单词:两份小报和一份大报。我们的数据集是根据Martin & White(2005)的态度子系统(AFFECT, JUDGEMENT和APPRECIATION)中的类别进行注释的。这种分类法的应用揭示了在分析的样本中对爱尔兰LGBT社区的明显负面立场。这一点在与消极判断和情感相关的评价性和情绪性语言中尤为明显。先前对同一样本的研究,考察了隐喻、及物性和情态(例如Bartley & Hidalgo-Tenorio, 2015),揭示了同性恋者在爱尔兰公共舞台上是如何反复受到歧视和诋毁的。本研究证实了迄今为止通过评价性语言分析得出的结论。
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Evaluation and Attitude towards Homosexuality in the Irish Context: A Corpus-assisted Discourse Analysis of APPRAISAL Patterns in 2008 Newspaper Articles
The analysis of newspaper discourse offers valuable insights into how society represents or misrepresents certain social participants and their actions. In view of the bias claimed to exist in journalistic prose (Bednarek, 2006; White, 2006), it is not uncommon to find evidence of the mistreatment directed towards particular minorities (Baker et al., 2008; Fowler, 1991). In this paper, the ideological stance associated with a specific minority group (i.e. homosexuals) is brought to the forefront in 2008, when Ireland’s vibrant economy took a dramatic turn for the worse. Incidentally, this coincided with homosexuality taking centre stage in Ireland’s political agenda, as 2008 marked the final stage of the long drawn-out debate on the Civil Partnership Bill. This paper is designed to offer insights into how evaluative language may reflect the mentality of Irish society in relation to the LGBT community. Martin & White’s (2005) APPRAISAL theory is highly relevant and applicable for this purpose, as it covers the idea of social esteem, social sanction, personal attitude and appreciation, which can be powerful indicators of a society’s take on current affairs. The methodology employed here is that of corpus-assisted discourse analysis (Stubbs, 1996). The dataset comprises over 200,000 words taken from three different newspapers: Two tabloids and one broadsheet. Our dataset is annotated on the basis of the categories in Martin & White’s (2005) subsystem of ATTITUDE (AFFECT, JUDGEMENT and APPRECIATION). The application of this taxonomy uncovers a remarkably negative stance towards the Irish LGBT community in the sample analysed. This is particularly evident in the predominance of evaluative and emotive language associated with the categories of negative JUDGEMENT and AFFECT. Previous research on the same sample, looking at metaphor, transitivity and modality (e.g. Bartley & Hidalgo-Tenorio, 2015), has cast light on how homosexuals are repeatedly discriminated against and vilified in the Irish public arena. This study confirms the results so far obtained through the analysis of evaluative language.
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