A Systemic Analysis

ISBN-13: 9783659195303 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 88 str.

Demontray Lockhart

Opis

In analyzing different news reporting styles of similar topic in juxtaposition with the use of linguistic devices has revealed that journalists use encoded language of incantation to foster their own political agenda; in that, language is used to manipulate readers into drawing certain conclusions. Systemic Functional Grammar provides the discursive tools to decode and decontextualize any written discourse (e.g., news). This book is divided into two parts. The first half introduces and explains Systemic Functional Grammar and its metalanguages. The second half of the book is dedicated to employing these functions to two online news articles of the same register, field and tenor but of different lexico-grammar. Consequently, this metafunctional typology suggests that novice readers should be oriented with text-analyzing tools to aid them in decoding news text (or any text similar in nature) in order to be less susceptible to news agencies propaganda and political control and thus making the content of critical reading more translucent to the reader.

O autorze

Demontray Lockhart,MA: Applied Linguistics (2012) from the University of Birmingham. He taught English as a foreign language in Korea for several years. He is also one of the 2012 presenters for the Applied Linguistics Association of Korea International Conference. And his research interests include language acquisition and teaching methods.