News reporting in the Philippines: English in print media  

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Dayag, Danilo T.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: World Englishes (Full Text) vol. 29 no. 3 (Sep. 2010), page 349-363.
Fulltext: p. 349-363.pdf (109.15KB)

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This study aims to determine how a hostage drama in Iraq involving an overseas Filipino worker was framed in English-language newspapers in the Philippines. Data came from the July 9–25, 2004 issues of five leading English-language broadsheets in the Philippines. The study found that the event was given maximum salience and prominence by the newspapers. In addition, the participant ‘Philippine government’ was foregrounded; the rest of the participants were backgrounded. In terms of activity, the performative verbs ‘saying’ and ‘asking’ were assigned to the topicalized/thematized participants in the data, thus making these participants agents or actors.

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