On emotions and the journalistic ideals of factuality and objectivity—Tools for analysis  

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Stenvall, Maija

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 40 no. 9 (Sep. 2008), page 1569-1586.
Topik: Emotions; Journalistic objectivity/factuality; News agency discourse; Functional Grammar; Appraisal
Fulltext: Stenvall_Maija.pdf (192.5KB)

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Reporting on emotions inherently challenges the journalistic ideals of objectivity and factuality. This paper presents two complementary approaches that can be used to reveal what is ‘hidden’ under news texts. One of them draws on central concepts of Halliday’s Systemic Functional Grammar, while the other is based on the Appraisal framework. My data come from the wire reports of two global news agencies, AP and Reuters. Three central grammatical systems of Halliday’s Functional Grammar – transitivity, nominalization and grammatical metaphor – are especially well suited for examining issues of responsibility. Nominalization transforms processes (verbs) or properties (adjectives) into nouns after metaphorical rewording. Nominalized emotions can then function as a participant in processes, according to various options of transitivity, or as a part of a prepositional phrase. When participant roles of the original (mental) process of feeling remain hidden, the language often becomes vague and obscure. Appraisal is divided into three interacting systems: Attitude, Engagement and Graduation, and one of the sub-systems of Attitude, namely Affect, deals with emotions. Affect values can be explicit or implicit. The analysis of implicit values, in particular, can help to reveal the writer’s subjective point of view; e.g., the strategies s/he has used to align the reader into feeling.

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