Interpersonal Metadiscourse in Newspaper Editorials
Publish place: The Journal of Applied Linguistics and Applied Literature: Dynamics and Advances.، Vol: 2، Issue: 1
Publish Year: 1392
نوع سند: مقاله ژورنالی
زبان: English
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تاریخ نمایه سازی: 21 فروردین 1397
Abstract:
The power of media lies in its persuasive function, which gives media a potential to maneuver on the mind of audience (van Dijk, 1996). This potential is realized via different linguistic resources, one important group of which is metadiscoursal resources. The major aim of this study was to explore how and in what distribution these resources are employed by writers with different cultural backgrounds to fulfill persuasive objectives in the genre of newspaper editorials. Based on Hyland’s (2005) interpersonal taxonomy, a total of eighty newspaper editorials from four elite newspapers (two Iranian and two American) were analyzed and compared. The results revealed some differences between the two groups of editors (Iranian group and American group) in terms of the number of metadiscoursal elements used in their editorials. For instance, the native speaker group proved to be more confident in using interactional and interpersonal metadiscourse markers more fiequently than the non-native group, which can be attributed to genre and language ownership on the part of the native speaker group. It can also be related to the contrast often made between writer-responsibility vs. reader- responsibility cultures (Hinds, 1987). On the whole, cultural upbringing, genre and language ownership, as well as different rhetorical considerations may play key roles in the type and frequency of metadiscoursal elements used in public domain discourses.
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farzad salahshoor
Assist. Prof, English Department, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz,Iran
zahra najjary asl
M.A. in TEFL, English Department, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh Branch,Maragheh, lran
marzieh tofigh
M.A. in TEFL, English Department, Islamic Azad University, Maragheh Branch,Maragheh, Iran