Abstract
The primary purpose of this study is to carry out and present an Appraisal analysis of the discourse of two reports published in the New York Times and the Washington Post newspapers. The specific objective is to identify and analyze the main attitudinal resources employed by the report’s authors to construe and negotiate feelings with their audiences about the Muslim ban incident that was implemented during Trump’s presidency of the United States. Moreover, the study explores the ideological differences from an Appraisal perspective about the travel ban between the selected newspapers. The study revealed that Appreciation resources were used more than other resources in the Washington Post, and the majority of them were addressing the travel restriction. On the other hand, the New York Times report made extensive use of both Judgment and Appreciation resources. In addition, all attitudes in the texts predicted ideological differences, but the Appreciation resources were the most critical predictor of ideological differences between them. This research reveals then which attitudes are more likely to reveal ideological differences.
Highlights
Language is a powerful tool that reveals many of our opinions and some aspects of our identities in addition to our ideologies and beliefs, whether in spoken or written language, consciously or unconsciously
According to Halliday (1994), when we use language, we are always doing three things at once; meaning, we are in some way portraying the world, which he calls the ideational function of language, we are establishing, and negotiating our relationships with the people, which he calls the interpersonal function of language, we are linking sentences and concepts together in specific ways to make cohesive and coherent texts, which he refers to as the textual function of language. These three functions of language constitute the most well-known model of grammar allocated in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which is Systemic Function Grammar (SFG)
For example, is a form of writing style that has been studied by many linguists recently (Zhang, 2014; Jin, 2019; Sahputra, 2021), political news, as it is a powerful discourse that is loaded with different ideologies
Summary
Language is a powerful tool that reveals many of our opinions and some aspects of our identities in addition to our ideologies and beliefs, whether in spoken or written language, consciously or unconsciously. According to Halliday (1994), when we use language, we are always doing three things at once; meaning, we are in some way portraying the world, which he calls the ideational function of language, we are establishing, and negotiating our relationships with the people, which he calls the interpersonal function of language, we are linking sentences and concepts together in specific ways to make cohesive and coherent texts, which he refers to as the textual function of language These three functions of language constitute the most well-known model of grammar allocated in Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), which is Systemic Function Grammar (SFG).
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