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dc.contributor.author | Jakaza, Ernest | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-26T13:05:06Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2016-05-26T13:05:06Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 1022-8195 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11408/1484 | - |
dc.description.abstract | The notion of 'subjectivity' in news reports has been widely researched especially from the media perspective. However, 'subjectivity' is realized in various forms and the varied contexts and theoretical approaches offer new understanding of the notion. This article departs from such media theoretic perspectives to a discourse- linguistic approach and makes an analysis of 'controversial' and 'emotional' reports of debates informed by the Appraisal Theory (Martin and White 2005) and Controversy analysis (van Eemeren and Garssen 2008). The research's focus is on how the Zimbabwean newspapers represent 'controversial' and `emotional' debates balancing factuality, impartiality and objectivity. Stories from both independent and state owned newspapers have been selected on the basis of their `controversiality' and 'emotionality'. The study concludes that news reporting is directed at aligning and disaligning readers with certain interpersonal meanings. Headlines of newspapers have been argued to be attitudinal or 'emotionally charged'. It also concludes that different language and cultural patterns have an impact on appraisal and argumentation in news reporting. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Routledge | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Language matters studies in the languages of Africa;Vol. 47, No. 1 | - |
dc.subject | Appraisal, Argumentation, Controversy, Newspaper reporting, Representation, Subjectivity, Zimbabwe | en_US |
dc.title | `Subjectivity' in newspaper reports on 'controversial' and `emotional' debates: an appraisal and controversy analysis | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
item.languageiso639-1 | en | - |
item.openairetype | Article | - |
item.openairecristype | http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_18cf | - |
item.grantfulltext | open | - |
item.fulltext | With Fulltext | - |
item.cerifentitytype | Publications | - |
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`Subjectivity' in newspaper reports on 'controversial'.pdf | Abstract | 172.21 kB | Adobe PDF | ![]() View/Open |
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