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A Linguistic Analysis of Metadiscourse Markers in some English and Arabic News Articles on the Russia-Ukraine Crisis
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Journal Article
A Linguistic Analysis of Metadiscourse Markers in some English and Arabic News Articles on the Russia-Ukraine Crisis
2023
Overview
The first half of 2022 has witnessed the Russia- Ukraine war raging on in Ukraine. The nature of the Russian military attack has raised conflicting views and has made headlines of political news articles worldwide. The present study analyses the language of some selected Arabic and English news articles which handled the war and investigates the anticipated variations of the writing styles, the intended audience and the public perspectives by tackling hedges and boosters as two linguistic devices characterizing journalistic writing. The focus here is on the type of change in the way knowledge is presented to the readers to enhance writers- readers interaction through the use of hedges and boosters as two metadiscourse resources. The study adopts the theoretical framework of Hyland (1998a &b, 2004 and 2005) and Salager-Meyer (1994) and examines the metadiscoursal functions of the two resources in a corpus of 11 English and Arabic articles with a total number of 4932 words. A number of sentences which contain hedges and boosters are analysed quantitatively. The following research questions are addressed: (1) what are the functions of hedges and boosters in political news discourse? (2) what are the writers' motivations for using hedges and boosters? (3) in what way does the employment of hedges and boosters influence the journalistic writing style of writers from different cultural, linguistic and political backgrounds? The study has put forward the potential roles of the metadiscourse resources of hedges and boosters in knowledge production and in the performance of writers' attitudes and viewpoints. The study suggests that there are two types of political journalistic writing: Argumentative Journalistic Writing (AJW) and Reporting Journalistic Writing (RJW). The study concludes that the distribution and frequency of hedges and boosters are different in the two types of political news writing.
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جامعة قناة السويس - كلية الآداب والعلوم الإنسانية
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