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Directives in English language newspaper editorials across cultures

In opinion discourse like newspaper editorials, written arguments exhibit an interesting interplay of linguistic features and strategies to achieve the communicative purpose of persuading the audience which is worth investigating especially in cross cultural settings. The intentions of editorials ar...

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Main Authors: Masroor, F., Ahmad, U. K.
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Published: Elsevier B.V. 2017
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Online Access:http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/76096/
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spelling my.utm.760962018-05-30T04:20:07Z http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/76096/ Directives in English language newspaper editorials across cultures Masroor, F. Ahmad, U. K. PE English In opinion discourse like newspaper editorials, written arguments exhibit an interesting interplay of linguistic features and strategies to achieve the communicative purpose of persuading the audience which is worth investigating especially in cross cultural settings. The intentions of editorials are fulfilled most explicitly through the strategy of directives, where facts may be provided only to endorse editorial stance. A pragma-dialectical approach to discourse analysis assumes argument structures as speech acts which require careful analysis of text and context. In this vein, this study analysed directives in 90 English editorials, taken from two Asian (Dawn and New Straits Times) and one American newspaper (The New York Times), by looking at their form, frequency and co-text. The results indicate Dawn's stance when realizing directives as direct, NYT's stance was authoritative, whereas NST's stance was less engaging and more cautious. Elsevier B.V. 2017 Article PeerReviewed Masroor, F. and Ahmad, U. K. (2017) Directives in English language newspaper editorials across cultures. Discourse, Context and Media, 20 . pp. 83-93. ISSN 2211-6958 https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85030477613&doi=10.1016%2fj.dcm.2017.09.009&partnerID=40&md5=8f027f06b72ca685402564a9533d3d9d
institution Universiti Teknologi Malaysia
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Masroor, F.
Ahmad, U. K.
Directives in English language newspaper editorials across cultures
description In opinion discourse like newspaper editorials, written arguments exhibit an interesting interplay of linguistic features and strategies to achieve the communicative purpose of persuading the audience which is worth investigating especially in cross cultural settings. The intentions of editorials are fulfilled most explicitly through the strategy of directives, where facts may be provided only to endorse editorial stance. A pragma-dialectical approach to discourse analysis assumes argument structures as speech acts which require careful analysis of text and context. In this vein, this study analysed directives in 90 English editorials, taken from two Asian (Dawn and New Straits Times) and one American newspaper (The New York Times), by looking at their form, frequency and co-text. The results indicate Dawn's stance when realizing directives as direct, NYT's stance was authoritative, whereas NST's stance was less engaging and more cautious.
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author Masroor, F.
Ahmad, U. K.
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Ahmad, U. K.
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title Directives in English language newspaper editorials across cultures
title_short Directives in English language newspaper editorials across cultures
title_full Directives in English language newspaper editorials across cultures
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publisher Elsevier B.V.
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url http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/76096/
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