عنوان

Applying systemic functoinal linguistics and critical discourse analysis to the investigation of ideology in a radio news bulletin

شماره

TLets536046

عنوان اصلي

Applying systemic functoinal linguistics and critical discourse analysis to the investigation of ideology in a radio news bulletin

نام عام مواد

[Thesis]

نام نخستين پديدآور

Haig, Edward tobias whitton

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Lancaster University

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

2009

جزئيات پايان نامه و نوع درجه آن

Ph.D.

کسي که مدرک را اعطا کرده

Lancaster University

امتياز متن

2009

متن يادداشت

In this study a version of Systemic Functional Linguistics (namely that developed by J. R.Martin and colleagues) is applied within a Critical Discourse Analysis framework to the study ofideology in a radio news bulletin. The bulletin was broadcast in August 2007 on the Todayprogramme on BBC Radio 4. The main story concerns the fatal shooting of a young boy inLiverpool. His attacker was another young boy who was a local gang member. The incidentrapidly acquired a symbolic dimension in Britain, partly due to the tragic nature of the crime butmainly becauseit was seena s the culmination of a serieso f youth crime incidents involvingguns or knives during the earlier part of that year that appeared to reflect what somecommentatorsa t the time were describinga s 'BreakdownB ritainor even 'Anarchy in the UK'.The study takes a fine-grained approach, analysing each clause in the bulletin text according toall the principal components of the Systemic Functional model. At the level of lexicogrammar,the systems of Mood, Modality, Transitivity, Theme and Clause Complexing are analysed. At thelevel of discourse semantics, Cohesion, Reference, and Appraisal are examined. The contextualvariables of Register and Genre are also analysed. Finally, the topmost stratum of context asconceived by Martin's model, ideology, is analysed.The findings of the study indicate that in each of the systems analysed the influence of ideologycould be detected. However, rather than any more overt political ideology, the ideologyidentified was principally that of the objective, neutral and balanced 'strategic impersonalisation'of the BBC news journalists. The study serves as an example of how a close textual analysisinformed by Systemic Functional Linguistics can contribute to Critical Discourse Analysis bymaking its analyses more rigorous and less subjective.

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Haig, Edward tobias whitton

مستند نام تنالگان تاييد نشده

Lancaster University

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Thesis]

کد کاربرگه

276903

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y