Exploratory Discourse on Media Discourse

ISBN-13: 9783639123418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 184 str.

Hasan Ansary

Opis

This book provides an in-depth analysis of thegeneric integrity of English newspaper editorials. Itapplies a Hallidayian SFL (Systemic FunctionalLinguistics) framework of text analysis to an arrayof native and non-native English editorials. Itcatalogs their micro-textual index (Chain Interactionanalysis) and uncovers their macro-rhetoricalskeleton (Generic Structure Potential analysis).Finally, it offers a qualitative and quantitativecross-cultural comparison to highlight textualvariation from one culture to another. The findings,likely to be of interest to those involved ineducation, applied linguistics, and the media, castlight on the validity of the Generic StructurePotential (GSP) analysis in the context ofContrastive Rhetoric (CR) research, relate thesignificance of Chain Interaction (CI) analysis togenre theory, and illustrate their far-reachingimplications for both genre pedagogy, in general, andthe theory and practice of Systemic FunctionalLinguistics (SFL), in particular.

O autorze

Hasan Ansary, PhD.:
Studied TEFL at Shiraz University, Iran.
Teaches EAP courses at the Islamic Azad University.

Assistant Professor of English at the Islamic Azad University
(IAU),
Qazvin, IRAN.