Evaluating Textuality in Selected News Articles from the Online Newspaper The Guardian
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2023
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Mouloud Mammeri University
Abstract
The present work seeks to investigate the textuality of selected online news articles in terms of seven dimensions: cohesion, coherence, intentionality, acceptability, informativity, situationality, and intertextuality. The purpose of this dissertation is to evaluate the news articles’ communicative effectiveness. To this end, this dissertation intends to reach two main objectives. The first objective targets the degree of manifestation of the articles’ standards of textuality. The second objective consists in determining the contribution of these criteria to assure the news articles’ clarity and communicativeness. To attain these objectives, we have opted for three news stories retrieved from the electronic version of The Guardian. Accordingly, a qualitative method is utilized to examine the texts. To achieve this purpose, the study relies on De Beaugrande and Dressler’s (1981) Model of Textuality established in their book Introduction to text Linguistics. Moreover, in our study we have also made use of Grice’s (1975) four (04) maxims: maxim of quality, maxim of quantity, maxim of relation, and maxim of manner. The results achieved from the analysis of the three articles are interpreted using the Qualitative Content Analysis (QCA). The findings of the current research show that the integrity of the criteria of textuality are effectively exploited making of the selected news texts well structured texts due to their clarity and efficacy. The appropriate display of the seven standards of textuality permits the news articles to provide comprehensible and straightforward information and raises the readers’ engagement with the texts enhancing their understanding and criticality of media.
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74p. ; 30cm(+CD-Rom)
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Linguistic Discourse Analysis, online news articles, The Guardian, the seven standards of textuality.
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Language and Communication