Detail ASEAN DISCOURSES IN AN ENGLISH NEWSPAPER   Oleh:  Sa-ngiamwibool, Amporn ; Kumsorn, Praochompoo Jenis: Article from Proceeding Dalam koleksi: The 1st Literary Studies Conference: Configuring and Reconfiguring English Literature in Southeast Asia (SEA), Yogyakarta, Universitas Sanata Dharma, 17-18 Oktober 2013 Topik: discourses; ASEAN news; Thailand’s opportunities and threats Fulltext: 2 ASEAN DISCOURSES IN AN ENGLISH NEWSPAPER.pdf (434.99KB) Isi artikel Discourses presented in English news can give readers with different points of view since the authors can use written techniques and meaningful English words to convey messages to the public. The discourses regarding to ASEAN news are currently interesting to the people who are involved with ASEAN Economic Community (AEC). This study consequently aimed to explore prevalent discourses introducing Thailand’s opportunities and threats in The Nation newspaper. This pilot study was a content analysis, specifically focusing on AEC news during the period of 1 January 2013 – 30 June 2013. Frequency was used to describe the data. This study revealed two major findings: 1) most ASEAN news relating more to Thailand’s opportunities than its threats; 2) the most prevalent news on opportunity includes the economic development, relationship and investment between Thailand and other ASEAN country members in preparation for the upcoming ASEAN Economic Community in 2015 whereas the most prevalent news on threats involves illegal migrant workers from neighboring countries working in Thailand. In addition, the frequency of phrases and sentences found in ASEAN news also signified Thailand’s opportunities more than threats. On the contrary, as competing discourses, the frequency of most words signifying threats was found more regularly than those indicating opportunities. The findings of this study implicate that the newspaper is optimistic, considering the upcoming AEC more as opportunity than threat. Future study should scrutinize the news in terms of linguistic and discourses analysis. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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