Analysis Of Journalistic Discourse Research Articles

Lexical Choices of the Contemporary French Press and the Representation of Montenegro: A Lexicometric Analysis of Journalistic Discourse

The aim of this paper is to analyze how the contemporary French press used language to present Montenegro, through a corpus-based study of articles from five notable journals (Le Figaro, Le Monde, Le Point, L’Obs, L’Express), published over a period of fifteen years, from 2006 to 2021. Lexicometric analysis performed with open source software IRaMuTeQ enabled us to determine the structure of the vocabulary, as well as the salient themes and “lexical worlds” shaped by the French media about Montenegro, since the restoration of its independence in 2006. Fifteen years of reporting revealed three main centers of interest: politics, tourism and sports. The study also revealed how the most common toponyms in the corpus are characterized, how adjectives participate in the intensification of media content and what specificities distinguish the five analyzed journals, regarding the treatment of particular topics and over-use or under-use of some lexical units.

Understanding and Quantifying: A Mixed-Method Study on the Journalistic Coverage of Canadian Disasters

This article presents a mixed methodology approach that was developed to analyze news coverage of four Canadian disasters. Here, we present the technical aspects of a mixed methods group research project that enabled analysis of more than 3,014 journalistic articles. We explain how alternating between inductive and deductive epistemological stances led to the quantification of characteristics of journalistic treatment not originating from a prior theoretical framework, but rather rooted in the data under study. Although our approach does not escape the difficulties and challenges posed by mixed methods and group research, in this article we present a way out of the usual methodological segmentation in journalistic discourse analysis by simultaneously exploiting the strengths of two approaches often perceived to be opposing.

Social media and journalistic discourse analysis: 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis

This study analyzes the journalistic discourses on social media in order to find out the position of Venezuelan and international press in the coverage of 2019 Venezuelan presidential crisis. Drawing on Borrat’s and Enguix Oliver’s theoretical approaches regarding newspapers and social networks, and through CDA models of Fairclough and Richardson, this research aims to understand to what extent the national quality newspapers such as El Nacional, El Universal, and Últimas Noticias, and the international ones as The New York Times, The Guardian, El País, and Le Monde participated in the Venezuelan political conflict and constructed the respective political narratives through Instagram. The findings show that both national and international press participated as external narrators in the political conflict and highlight the role of newspapers as political actors and social media as a tool in their hands.

The role of the written press during the Spanish transition to democracy

This study describes the relations between the press and political power, during the Spanish transition to democracy in the late 1970s, focusing on discursive relations between political actors with power or challenging power and the media which interpreted their developments. It analyses how the main media, in the discourse of their news stories and editorials, framed events to construct a ‘reality’ for the public, aiding or impeding the construction of a democratic public sphere. The study is based on an analysis of journalistic discourse in ABC, La Vanguardia, El País (daily newspapers) and Triunfo (a weekly political magazine) in their coverage of key events in the period between the death of Franco (November 1975) and the approval of the Basque and Catalan statutes (November 1979).

Valores periodísticos en las elecciones parlamentarias y presidenciales en Cuba durante el 2018: Análisis retórico del establecimiento de la estrategia de polarización ideológica en los discursos de Granma y OnCuba

La presente investigación caracteriza, desde el nivel retórico, el uso de los valores periodísticos como forma de expresión ideológica en los discursos de Granma (edición digital) y OnCuba, sobre las elecciones parlamentarias y presidenciales en Cuba, durante la semana del 17 al 24 de abril de 2018. Para ello, se asume la propuesta teórico-metodología de Teun van Dijk para el análisis ideológico del discurso periodístico. Como resultado de la investigación, se comprueba que novedad, presuposición, relevancia, desviación y negatividad, y proximidad son los valores periodísticos fundamentales que ambos medios emplean para legitimarse como objetivos. Asimismo, aunque sus políticas editoriales se contraponen ideológicamente, Granma y OnCuba coinciden en reconocer al pueblo cubano como el integrante más valioso de sus correspondientes ingroups; estrategia retórica que les permite enarbolarse como defensores de los cubanos, a pesar de que los miembros de sus respectivos outgroups sean, evidentemente, adversarios ideo-políticos.

Transactional or transformational leadership? The speech of five rectors of Mexican universities: An approximation

The general objective of this article is to identify and reflet on the type of leadership exercised by five university rectors women in Mexico, through the analysis of journalistic discourse, based on the paradigm of transformational / transactional leadership, the typology with a gender perspective approach proposed by Burín (traditional, transactional and innovative), part of the analysis model of journalistic discourse proposed by Gutiérrez-Vidrio and three categories of stylistic analysis proposed by Prieto-Castillo. Among the results, the categories of coincidences and specificities were highlighted. The speech of three rectors is highlighted since it is inscribed in the transformational and / or innovative model, signified by the breakdown of traditional schemes and a strong presence of three variables: inspirational, ethical and vision of the future. On the other hand, the speech of two rectors can be framed in a leadership called "transition" from the known and accepted to the current. To exercise the position of rector means, for them, a continuum of the role assigned to women from long ago: to be at the service of others. The academic environment would be the terrain where "family culture" is incorporated. However, this singularity makes it clear that none of the five, specifically the last two rectors mentioned, follow the traditional scheme yet, since the academic environment in which they operate has facets that establish the difference within the family environment itself. The theoretical model assumed for the analysis of the discourse was relevant since it helped identifying the typology of the leadership and to reflect on the traditional scheme assigned to women and explained by the approach of the gender perspective. A broader corpus and the integration of more variables would deepen the type of leadership exercised or exercised by the rectors in Mexico.

[The promotion of health of the Brazilian female and healthy eating: discourses and opinions printed in the Brazilian newspaper Folha de São Paulo].

The study identifies the discourse and opinions about women's health in relation to their eating habits by means of qualitative research using the journalistic discourse analysis method of the Folha de São Paulo newspaper. Based on the selection of texts on health, women's health and nutrition published throughout the year 2013, the sample resulted in seven journalistic texts, in which voices from the scientific universe related to research, quotes from journals, scientific associations and the opinion of health professionals and researchers were predominantly identified. However, the discourse of women in general about their health rarely appears in the sample analyzed. The main topics were related to health risks and the connection with diet or supplements, as well as pregnancy. The predominant content discourse related to health risk and its relationship with eating habits, nutrition or supplements, as well as pregnancy and/or the manner of delivery; health as a commodity associated with products or procedures, such as diets, dietary supplements, drugs and bariatric surgery, with no room for the promotion of health and healthy eating.

Multimodal Approach for Automatic Emotion Recognition Applied to the Tension Levels Study in TV Newscasts

This article addresses a multimodal approach to automatic emotion recognition in participants of TV newscasts (presenters, reporters, commentators and others) able to assist the tension levels study in narratives of events in this television genre. The methodology applies state-of-the-art computational methods to process and analyze facial expressions, as well as speech signals. The proposed approach contributes to semiodiscoursive study of TV newscasts and their enunciative praxis, assisting, for example, the identification of the communication strategy of these programs. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach was applied it in a video related to a report displayed on a Brazilian TV newscast great popularity in the state of Minas Gerais. The experimental results are promising on the recognition of emotions on the facial expressions of tele journalists and are in accordance with the distribution of audiovisual indicators extracted over a TV newscast, demonstrating the potential of the approach to support the TV journalistic discourse analysis.This article addresses a multimodal approach to automatic emotion recognition in participants of TV newscasts (presenters, reporters, commentators and others) able to assist the tension levels study in narratives of events in this television genre. The methodology applies state-of-the-art computational methods to process and analyze facial expressions, as well as speech signals. The proposed approach contributes to semiodiscoursive study of TV newscasts and their enunciative praxis, assisting, for example, the identification of the communication strategy of these programs. To evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed approach was applied it in a video related to a report displayed on a Brazilian TV newscast great popularity in the state of Minas Gerais. The experimental results are promising on the recognition of emotions on the facial expressions of tele journalists and are in accordance with the distribution of audiovisual indicators extracted over a TV newscast, demonstrating the potential of the approach to support the TV journalistic discourse analysis.

National Images in the Media and in Travel Writing

Abstract The image that Romania has abroad represents, especially from a journalistic perspective, a more and more fashionable topic, although the westerners’ interest in this ‘different’ country is not that recent. What is recent is the self-awareness that Romanians are starting to develop, with regard to the westerners’ opinions, appreciative or deprecatory as they may be. The media play a very important role in the dissemination of national images and are the main provider of clichés and stereotypes. Ethnic groups are stereotyped and ‘otherized’ on the basis of popular media images. However, travel accounts are the literary works that carry imagological messages par excellence. My intention is to illustrate how the media influence the dissemination of images in travel writing and how images in travel writing can be approached through instruments normally used in journalistic discourse analysis

Cuba: el advenimiento de la “República” en el periódico La Lucha, 1902

The establishment of the first Republic of Cuba, in may 1902, has been a topic barely addressed in contemporary cuban historiography. therefore, this article analyzes this historical juncture in the discourse of the daily newspaper L a L u c h a , organ directed to a bilingual audience, according to the demands of the new foreign power. We analyze the existing problems during the transition period and the start of the Republican era in Cuba and its representation in the Havana newspaper said. We consider the following proposed hemerographic, we approach the public in a segment of political and nationalist intellectuals and anti cuban americans interested in defending the independence of his country. Journalistic discourse analysis will be contrasted and complemented by documentary and bibliographic.

Disease as Enemy: Journalistic Discourse Analysis about Dengue Fever

Dengue fever is one of the current concerns of Brazilian public health. It emerged and became well known in Brazil in the 1980s, when successive outbreaks were registered in several cities. The purpose of this article is to evaluate the media treatment given to dengue fever, a disease that is increasingly affecting Brazilian people. Starting from the explosive outbreak recorded in 2002, we seek to understand the discourse construction about the disease, by evaluating the discursive strategies used in 2002, 2004, 2006 and 2008. We selected 291 news published in Jornal do Commercio, a daily newspaper of Recife (State of Pernambuco), about the situation of dengue and linked them to the notifications of the disease recorded by the Health Department of Pernambuco. The increase of cases and fatalities has a strong journalistic appeal, requiring an almost daily narrative of the events related to the disease’s threat. The notion of outbreak built over the centuries is essential to analyze the effects of signification produced nowadays about infectious diseases as dengue fever. Moreover the discourse of militarization observed in the media through war metaphors is commonly used to emphasize the fear and the necessity of adoption of preventive practices.

Journalists on the news: The structured panel discussion as a form of broadcast talk

This article examines the structured panel discussion as a new form of broadcast news interaction. This involves live conversation among the anchorperson and news journalists on political news stories. The article draws upon the conversation analytic literature on news interviews, as well as detailed discourse analysis of journalistic discourse. By analysing data from Greek commercial prime-time news, it is argued that both the sequential organization and intra-turn design of journalists’ talk help construct their professional role as that of an authoritative expert (analyst and opinionated commentator) on political current affairs. The rhetoric of expertise legitimizes the journalists’ attribution of accountability, as well as their formulation of personal points of view. Given the absence of political actors from such extended exchanges, journalists are enabled to ‘impose’ their preferred readings of political actions and events on the audience. The structured panel discussion is a unique inter-journalistic conversational format, which exists alongside the more standard news interview, and is consequential for the representation of politics and political actors by the broadcast media.

MEDIA(TED) DISCOURSE AND SOCIETY

The analysis of journalistic discourse and its social embeddedness has known significant advances in the last two decades, especially due to the emergence and development of Critical Discourse Analysis. However, three important aspects remain under-researched: the time plane in discourse analysis, the discursive strategies of social actors, and the extra- and supra-textual effects of mediated discourse. Firstly, understanding the biography of public matters requires a longitudinal examination of mediated texts and their social contexts but most forms of analysis of journalistic discourse do not account for the time sequence of texts and its implications. Secondly, as the media representation of social issues is, to a large extent, a function of the discursive construction of events, problems and positions by social actors, the discursive strategies that they employ in a variety of arenas and channels “before” and “after” journalistic texts need to be examined. Thirdly, the fact that many of the modes of operation of discourse are extra- or supra-textual calls for a consideration of various social processes “outside” the text. This paper aims to produce a theoretical and methodological contribution to the integration of these issues in discourse analysis by proposing a framework that combines a textual dimension with a contextual one.

Análisis del discurso periodístico

En este artículo expongo un método de análisis del discurso periodístico a partir de una investigación realizada sobre prensa cubana de carácter histórico (principios del siglo XX), que se proponía indagar en los procesos discursivos e ideológicos en torno a la conflictiva formación de la República. La metodología se basa en una concepción del discurso noticioso como lugar de habla de los actores políticos de una situación dada. Señalo también algunos fenómenos lingüísticos que se mostraron relevantes en la constitución de importantes líneas de sentido a lo largo del corpus estudiado. 

Textes journalistiques et analyse contrastive du genre en didactique

Bénédicte Facques, Carol Sanders : Textes journalistiques et analyse contrastive du genre en didactique. This article gives a critical overview of the application of genre theory to the analysis of journalistic discourse, and attempts to marry the use of a "top-down" ("French") approach with a "bottom-up" ("Anglophone") approach in the analysis of a short journalistic text.

Estudi estilístic i contrastiu de l'arquitectura de l'oració. Estil segmentat vs. estil cohesionat

After Serafini’s (1992) distinction between loose and cohesive style, this paper shows the influence of sentence syntax on text construction and interpretation. Several stylistic effects derived from the use of one style or the other will be discussed by analyzing and comparing some texts in Catalan, Spanish and English. This analysis will highlight common tendencies along with interesting differences among the three languages. In addition, the loose-cohesive style dichotomy will be applied to literary and journalistic discourse analysis, on the one hand, and to contrastive analysis and translation, on the other hand.