Sections Of Newspapers Research Articles

News for nature: Communicating biodiversity importance and conservation challenges in Guinea‐Bissau, West Africa, through local media and online platforms

AbstractGuinea‐Bissau, an important regional biodiversity hotspot in West Africa, faces the challenge of raising awareness among the general public about the significance of natural resources for rural communities' survival and the need for biodiversity conservation. This knowledge gap hinders conservation efforts as initiatives are deemed irrelevant or unnecessary. A climate of political vulnerability, financial uncertainty and threats to media freedom are further obstacles to conservation biology. Researchers lack established communication platforms for academic dissemination. In this paper, we introduce the initiative News for Nature/PRIMACTION (2020–2022), which aimed to establish a communication channel between researchers and media agents. The project had two primary objectives: firstly, to raise awareness among the Guinea‐Bissau society about the importance of national biodiversity and conservation challenges; and secondly, to enhance the capacity of specific communicators and opinion makers. The project had several important outputs, including: i) a bi‐monthly newspaper section focused on “biodiversity conservation in Guinea‐Bissau”, ii) three radio‐theatre episodes performed by a well‐known group and broadcasted nationally, iii) one song composed and sung by famous musicians, with an introduction by Jane Goodall, and iv) a website providing technical resources for journalists covering biodiversity and conservation news. Collaborators mentioned the lack of logistical conditions for traveling in the country as a major impediment in reporting conservation‐related news. We emphasize the significance of establishing direct contact and articulation between researchers and local media to promote conservation research in West African countries. In countries where science communication and environmental education outreach are not well‐established, it is crucial to bridge the challenges faced by the communities in different regions of the same country. This is especially urgent in cases where such challenges are significant.

Covering Feminicidios: How Mexican Journalists Fight to Improve Representation of Violence Against Women

ABSTRACT In the last decades, there have been multiple calls to challenge the way Mexican journalists report on the everyday violence women face in the country, particularly the coverage of feminicidios (femicides). To better understand newsroom challenges, the present study uses the hierarchy of influences model to explore the different levels of influence that shape feminicidio news in Nuevo Leon, Mexico, one of the most violent states for women in the country. The findings, based on 20 interviews with journalists who covered feminicidios, indicate that routine (sources, available resources, crime formats) and organizational (newspaper sections and economic demands) levels continue to shape most of the initial news agenda, but that individual journalists are aware of this, and regularly try to find opportunities to push for stories that place the issue as part of a larger societal problem. This results in a reported increasing number of feminicidio news with a gender perspective and strategic attempts to make up for past biased reporting. Implications and recommendations for the coverage of the larger VAW issue in the Mexican setting are discussed.

COMMUNICATIVE AND PRAGMATIC FEATURES OF THE TEXTS GERMAN LANGUAGE ANNOUNCEMENTS ON THE SEARCH OF A PARTNER

The article is devoted to the analysis of communicative and pragmatic features of German advertisements about finding a partner, the language of which is characterized by certain changes in lexical content. Lexical units for the material were selected from advertisements on dating sites or newspaper sections for dating with age categories: 25-40 years and 60 or more years. The concise presentation of information and the desire to present yourself positively led to changes in the selection of lexical tools. In order to achieve his goal, the author is forced to customize the text to the target audience, taking into account the cultural and gender characteristics of the present. The language and its functioning in such advertisements has changed its meaning and lexical content, in particular, the use of evaluative lexical means, as well as the frequent use of abbreviations with an emphasis on general characteristics, rather than individual ones. Changes in the attitude of the younger age group towards the approach to writing have led to changes in the tactics of selecting lexical units and their implementation in order to achieve a communicative goal. As a conclusion, there is a tendency to simplify the structure, lexical content, speech formation. The research is interdisciplinary in nature and contributes to the formation of an idea of the development of language in virtual discourse and its changes caused by modern society and factors influencing it.

Is Travel Journalism more similar to Newspaper Language or the Language of Tourism? A corpus-based study

ABSTRACT The Travel section of a newspaper is composed of texts which purport to at least partly comply with the ethical value of journalistic objectivity, yet the border between this type of writing and the overtly promotional texts produced in the tourism sector is somewhat blurred. This paper compares linguistic features in samples of text from Tourist Board websites and the Travel section and nine other sections of The Guardian to determine whether Travel Journalism can be categorised as a type of journalism, or whether it bears distinct similarities to Tourism Discourse. The results suggest that Travel Journalism differs from the other newspaper sections and is quite similar to the Language of Tourism on the basis of some features. However, in relation to others, it is decidedly different, thereby suggesting that Travel Journalism can be cleared of the allegation of being unduly influenced by the texts produced by the tourism industry.

Pages From Nagyvárad City’s Football History (1901 – 1919)

"In the first part, the paper refers to the events which led to the establishment of the first sports associations of Nagyvárad city, followed by the presentation of the school sports associations and clubs that had football departments, the football fields, the very first round-ball game in the city’s history, and the attendance of the teams to regional football championships. Within the documentation phase, I consulted specialized books, monographs, encyclopedias and sports sections of newspapers published in Oradea referring to the studied topic. Keywords: football, sports association, Nagyvárad, Oradea "

Challenges to Persons with Disabilities in Pakistan: A Review of Literature

This study is based on the review of available literature to explore the problems faced by persons with disabilities in Pakistan. However, only those persons were focused who were physically handicapped. In order to probe into the problems faced by this weaker section of society, different books, research papers, newspapers and online sources were extensively reviewed. The study summarizes that this marginalized section of society is faced with multiple problems, chief among them are education, health and employment. Owing to their disability and attitudinal problems from society, very few of them complete their education, and most of them drop out in the early levels of education. In addition, there is a lack of health facilities, due to which they are vulnerable to chronic diseases like COVID-19. The lack of education and lack of opportunities have created employment problems for them. The study recommends that persons with disabilities should be given educational opportunities as have been given to able-bodied persons. Furthermore, they should also be given jobs quota not only in government jobs rather in the private sector as well.

ДИНАМІКА ВИКОРИСТАННЯ СЕМАНТИЧНИХ НЕОЛОГІЗМІВ У ІСПАНОМОВНОМУ ПУБЛІЦИСТИЧНОМУ ДИСКУРСІ ПІД ЧАС ЕПІДЕМІЇ COVID-19

The article is dedicated to the analysis of cases of the use of semantic neologisms created in Spanish-language newspapers due to the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Based on the materials of Spanish-language journalistic publications of the pandemic period, the article examines and analyzes cases of the use of such semantic neologisms. The study of semantic neologisms allows us to trace the changes that the realities of the epidemic have made on the meaning of units already existing in the language. The article pays attention to the characteristics of the use of neologisms in different sections of Spanish-language newspapers and the dynamics of their use compared to publications before the spread of the epidemic. A neologism is a new lexical unit that appears in the language, as well as a new meaning of an already existing unit or a new phrase. A semantic neologism is a new lexical unit that appears in the language due to the acquisition of a new meaning by a word, or by the preservation of the original meaning and the acquisition of an additional one by the same lexeme. Journalistic discourse is a type of institutional communication aimed at informing and influencing the mass addressee in the public-political, social-cultural fields and the mass media.

TEACHING ORAL SKILLS TO NON-PHILOLOGY STUDENTSMAJORING IN HUMANITIES

Thearticle is devoted to the topical issue of teaching oral speech to non-philologystudents majoring inhumanities. An overview of types of dialogicaland monologicalspeech is presented. Particular attention is paid to the practical side of the issue: the authors propose a system of exercises that will promote more successful mastering bystudentsof oral speech, whichis necessary for learning and professional communication.It is noted that the source for working with students at the final stage oftheirstudy can be specialized articles, sections of qualification papers, newspaper and magazine materials on relevant topics for students. The result of the analysis of the structure and main theses of the texts should be a discussion, during which the skills of expressing one's own opinion, arguing one’s own point of view, opponencywill be improved. The productivity of composing professional monologues, constructing reportsis emphasized. The thesis about the need to combine the development of oral and written speech to achieve the best results is substantiated.The article offers recommendation exercises of a practical nature, which will be relevant forteaching students to compose areflectivemonologue and to discusson professional topics

ANALISIS LINGKUNGAN KERJA PRODUKSI KORAN MENGGUNAKAN METODE 5S

Lack of care and concern for the work environment with the presence of useless goods in the newspaper production area at PT. Metro Riau is the cause of obstacles to the company. This study aims to analyze the work environment in the production section of newspapers with the 5S method and proposals related to existing problems. Based on the results of the study, there are 5S problems in the form of a damaged air conditioner (Air Conditioner) left unattended in the production area (seiri), the presence of accumulated production equipment and materials (seiton), the existing machines are not clean (seiso), standardization of the work environment that does not yet exist in the company (seiketsu) and the absence of 5S training and habituation to employees (shitsuke). The existing proposal is in the form of suggestions related to holding 5S training for employees. Making work environment SOP to create a work environment following the 5S method. Minimizing employee mileage from 41 meters to 34.4 meters by making a proposed layout so that it has a more effective value of 16.1%.

STORY CREATION AND THE IMPACT OF TRAVEL JOURNALISTS ON DESTINATION BRANDS

The main objective of this article is to present an insight into the process of story creation in the travel section of British newspapers. The research presented focuses on this specific area of written press in order to understand how stories are created and how destination brand managers can use and control this source of information to build brand image. In order to understand how journalists create their stories the authors conducted a qualitative research with six travel journalists. Because of the exploratory nature of this research, it was decided that the best method of data collection was in-depth interviews. Although the aim of the travel section is to inform readers, the nature of its written stories differs from the newspaper’s other articles. In fact, reports published in the travel section tend to be positive and boast an optimistic outlook about places and leisure activities. Two main reasons may explain why this happens: first, the reason why a person reads the travel section; second, the symbiotic relationship between the press and travel or leisure organisations. These aspects influence the nature of the published stories and impact on how journalists write their articles. Despite the relevance of travel journalism, research on the topic is scant. The process of creating a story is poorly understood and therefore difficult for DMOs to manage this source of image creation

What Sticks With Whom? Twitter Follower-Followee Networks and News Classification

In this paper we analyze Twitter as a news channel in which the network of followers and followees significantly corresponds with the message content. We classified our data into twelve topics analogous to traditional newspaper sections and investigated whether the spread of information depended upon the Twitter network of followers and followees. To test this, we mapped the social network related to each topic and calculated the occurrence of retweet and mention mes-sages whose senders and receivers were interconnected as followers and followees. We found that on average 10% of retweets (RT-messages) and 5% of direct mentions between users (AT-messages) in Twitter hashtags are sent and received by users interconnected as followers and followees. These figures vary considerably from topic to topic, ranging from 15%-19% within Technology, Special Events and Politics to 3%-5% within the categories Personalities and Twitter-Idioms. The results show that hard-news messages are retweeted by a considerably larger community of users interconnected as followers and followees. We then performed a statistical correlation analysis of the dataset to validate the classification of hashtag in news sections based on retweet connectivity.

Covid-19 Trending Neologisms in Bosnia and Herzegovina

The Covid-19 pandemic has affected every single aspect of life including conversational practices both online and offline. New lexical and sociolinguistic changes have become part of our lives, which is especially vivid in the emergence of Covid-19 trending neologisms. The present study utilizes the descriptive-qualitative design in the analysis of morphological structures of neologisms in Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian languages. Specifically, the paper is based on the analysis of morphological structures of the neologisms that use the discourse of the Covid pandemic as a base/modifier, i.e., that contain either corona- / korona-, coronavirus- / koronavirus-, Covid-19- / Kovid-19-, and Covid- / Kovid- as a base of the neologism. The dataset consists of over 10,000 headlines related to Covid-19 information, found and collected in online newspaper sections Koronavirus – Dnevni Avaz (Bosnia and Herzegovina) between March 2020 and March 2021. The results show that there is an intensive usage of the Covid-19 neologisms, which manifests the dynamics of language as new words are used, added, and integrated into conversational practices daily. Moreover, the majority of these neologisms use the discourse of the Covid pandemic as a base/modifier. This paper aims to shed light not only on the meanings of the new words and their structure and function, but it can also serve as a foundation for creating a special Covid-19 glossary on the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina.

On the Political Use of the Reportative Conditional in Italian Newspapers

The labels condizionale riportivo (reportative conditional) or condizionale citativo (quotative conditional) are employed to describe certain uses of the conditional mood in Italian, particularly when the conditional marks the non-firsthand nature of a given piece of information. This use of the conditional is particularly frequent in the language of newspapers. However, reportative conditionals may also carry epistemic overtones, and they are used by speakers when they want to stress that they are not committed to the truthfulness of the information reported. Depending on the context, a reportative conditional can be either a purely evidential marker, or an evidential marker with epistemic overtones. Some Italian (trained) speakers exploit this ambiguity as a strategy to play on the two possible interpretations. This strategy is particularly significant in contexts in which the speaker is supposed to be neutral and, as such, must refrain from expressing her/his epistemic stance when recounting events. In this paper, after an analysis of the different sections of newspapers in which reportative conditionals occur, I will discuss one particular use of reportative conditionals in Italian newspapers, i.e. the “political” use of conditionals. To this end, I will carry out a qualitative analysis of some excerpts from newspapers published between the second half of the 19th century and today. In particular, it will be shown that journalists often take advantage of the ambiguities underlying reportative conditionals in Italian, in order to discredit the political position of a person (or group) without overtly questioning it.

Have Sustainable Development Goal Depictions Functioned as a Nudge for the Younger Generation before and during the COVID-19 Outbreak?

Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and their corresponding logos have become ubiquitous in Japan. While not legally binding, they allow us to choose how to contribute or not to the SDGs. Considering that SDGs share characteristics with nudges, we investigated whether SDGs, with their term and logos, have functioned as a nudge before and during the COVID-19 outbreak. Using Japan as a case study, we analyzed newspaper articles to explore how the term SDGs has spread before and during the outbreak. We also conducted a questionnaire among college students (n = 421) to explore how exposure to the term or its logos has steered the behavior of the younger generation toward SDGs. Our analysis revealed that the use of the term in newspaper articles has rapidly increased and spread across newspaper sections, whereas the COVID-19 outbreak has slowed its spread. The results showed that 68.9% of the respondents were familiar with the term or logos. Of these, 25.4% had changed their behavior toward SDGs. Surprisingly, COVID-19 has had a rather positive influence as a catalyst in that more respondents have overall become more proactive or maintained previous behaviors (28.3%). This indicates that COVID-19 may be an opportunity to make a shift toward a more sustainable society.

On the Political Use of the Reportative Conditional in Italian Newspapers

The labels condizionale riportivo (reportative conditional) or condizionale citativo (quotative conditional) are employed to describe certain uses of the conditional mood in Italian, particularly when the conditional marks the non-firsthand nature of a given piece of information. This use of the conditional is particularly frequent in the language of newspapers. However, reportative conditionals may also carry epistemic overtones, and they are used by speakers when they want to stress that they are not committed to the truthfulness of the information reported. Depending on the context, a reportative conditional can be either a purely evidential marker, or an evidential marker with epistemic overtones. Some Italian (trained) speakers exploit this ambiguity as a strategy to play on the two possible interpretations. This strategy is particularly significant in contexts in which the speaker is supposed to be neutral and, as such, must refrain from expressing her/his epistemic stance when recounting events. In this paper, after an analysis of the different sections of newspapers in which reportative conditionals occur, I will discuss one particular use of reportative conditionals in Italian newspapers, i.e. the “political” use of conditionals. To this end, I will carry out a qualitative analysis of some excerpts from newspapers published between the second half of the 19th century and today. In particular, it will be shown that journalists often take advantage of the ambiguities underlying reportative conditionals in Italian, in order to discredit the political position of a person (or group) without overtly questioning it.

Visual Demand and Acuity Reserve of Chinese versus English Newspapers.

ABSTRACTSIGNIFICANCEThis study suggests that Chinese newspaper characters are more legible than English newspaper letters. Characters in Chinese newspapers have higher acuity reserve than English newspapers.PURPOSEThe purpose of this study was to evaluate visual demand and acuity reserve for Chinese newspapers in comparison with published data on U.S. newspapers.METHODSThe test distances for visual acuity in Chinese clinical studies were reviewed systematically. Characters from different sections of newspapers printed in simplified Chinese were evaluated. The character height, frequency, and visual demand and acuity reserve of each newspaper section were determined for Chinese characters of the six different levels of complexity.RESULTSMore than 70% of Chinese clinical studies measure near visual acuity at either 33 or 40 cm. The height of Chinese characters ranged from 1.95 to 3.28 mm across different sections of five newspapers compared with 1.0 to 2.0 mm for English letters. The frequency of Chinese characters from least to most complex ranged from 7 to 34% across 12 sections of one Chinese newspaper. The angular threshold across the six complexity levels of Chinese characters ranged from 4.62 to 5.93 arcmin (0.54 to 0.69 mm at 40-cm reading distance) with a weighted angular threshold of 5.18 arcmin compared with 3.37 arcmin (0.39 mm) for the English letters. For Chinese newspapers, at 40-cm reading distance, the acuity reserve for the smallest and largest median size was 3.55 and 4.61, respectively.CONCLUSIONSChinese characters are larger than English characters in all newspaper sections newspapers by a factor of 1.60 to 2.34. Given that Chinese characters need to be 1.54 times larger than English letters to provide the same acuity reserve, on average, Chinese newspapers are more legible than U.S. English newspapers.

Medium is a Weapon

This paper analyzes the ways in which the media can be abused to foster the most extreme political propaganda using the example of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. After having propagated social values such as unity, harmony, brotherhood and anti-fascist heritage, in the late 1980s Serbian and Croatian media came under control of nationalists who manipulated them into propagating hatred, nationalism and xenophobia. In Bosnia and Herzegovina, such practice followed the outbreak of the Bosnian war and resulted in several media outlets which took the same course of action. Some media outlets will fully endorse McLuhan’s idea of technical intermediaries as modern weapons and even go one step further in their warlike messages than the political parties that formed them. The most striking examples are Bosnian-based TV Pale, Croatian daily newspaper Vjesnik and Serbian newspaper Politika (especially the Echoes and Reactions newspaper section). With their actions such media will confirm that the most dangerous form of media bias is precisely propaganda bias as defined by Denis McQuail. Its destructive power is illustrated on the example of the bloody Yugoslav break-up fueled by their spreading of misinformation.

Built heritage or lost nostalgia: Israeli fans and the conservation of sports venues

ABSTRACT Public campaigns aimed at preventing the demolition of sports venues represent a recent trend to recognise them as legitimate expressions of local sports culture. This article focuses on analysing what fans feel about these sports venues and the need to preserve them. Its main goal is to examine this growing phenomenon, which could affect modern preservation trends and the built heritage of sports. Focusing on the Israeli context, the article includes qualitative analysis of fans’ internet feedback expressing their attitudes towards preservation of sports facilities compared to preserving buildings associated with other cultural pursuits. It also features a series of interviews with fans and analysis of articles published in sports sections of newspapers, journals and sports blogs. The qualitative analysis shows that fans attribute five heritage values to sports venues as well as assign them historical community importance, and they do so consciously but primarily unconsciously. Thus, the primary obstacle to the decision to preserve sports venues is not the degree of emotional significance of these places for fans. Rather it is the absence of broad social recognition of the heritage of sports in Israel or of the possible advantages these buildings offer as a tangible expression of this heritage.

Live or recorded? Reassessing the “decline of the highbrow arts” debate using European newspaper data, 1960–2010

ABSTRACT Recent scholarship has argued that the concept of highbrow culture is undergoing radical changes, both in content and modes of appropriation. We introduce a new layer to this debate by bringing to the fore the format of the cultural product, distinguishing between “live” cultural products (concerts, exhibitions, live shows) and “recordings” (distributable items such as books or music albums). Using culture sections of newspapers (The Guardian, Le Monde, ABC, El País, Helsingin Sanomat, Dagens Nyheter) from 1960 to 2010 (n = 11,775) we ask what role the format of the cultural product plays for the highbrow/non-highbrow trajectories over time. We show that highbrow coverage faces a relative decline, mostly explained by the expanding non-highbrow arts coverage. Moreover, coverage on live events decreases, while coverage of recordings grows. This trend reflects the highbrow/non-highbrow divide, revealing that the “decline of the highbrow” phenomenon is under closer scrutiny a “decline of the highbrow live event”.

Culturally marked collocations in New Zealand national variety of economic discourse

The article is devoted to the analysis of culturally marked collocations in the economic discourse of New Zealand. The study of collocations has gained momentum and become the subject of multiple studies connected with the interest for their formation, combinability, translation and stylistic connotations. However, collocations in the New Zealand economic discourse have hardly been explored before, hence it defines the relevance of this study. The purpose of this research is to identify semantic and cultural peculiarities of collocations in the New Zealand variant of English. The article presents statistic data on the frequency of various conceptual types of collocations in newspaper sections. The frequency of collocations used is determined by the quantitative analysis, while the description of the examples chosen has been given using contextual analysis and descriptive methods. Special attention is paid to the cultural specifics of collocations that reflect history, lifestyle, and traditions of the New Zealanders.