Figures of Speech in Football Match Reports

Dalam penulisan sebuah berita laporan sepakbola, wartawan sering menggunakan bahasa kiasan, sebagai salah satu strategi untuk menggambarkan kembali jalannya pertandingan. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengklasifikasikan dan mendeskripsikan gaya bahasa yang banyak digunakan dalam berita laporan pertandingan sepakbola. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif deskriptif, karena mendeskripsikankan gaya bahasa yang terdapat dalam berita laporan pertandingan sepakbola. Peneliti menggunakan teknik Simak Bebas Libat Cakap dalam mengumpulkan data karena data yang berkaitan dengan penelitian ini berasal dari empat surat kabar online: The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Daily Mirror, dan The Guardian. Dengan menggunakan purposive sampling, penulis memilih delapan berita laporan pertandingan sepakbola yang banyak mengandung bahasa kiasan. Metode agih digunakan sebagai metode analisisa data untuk mengidentifikasi dan menjelaskan penggunaan gaya bahasa dalam laporan pertandingan sepak bola. Dari hasil analisa, penulis menemukan bahwa jenis gaya bahasa yang terdapat dalam laporan pertandingan sepakbola adalah simile, metafora, personifikasi, kiasan, eponim, sinekdok, metonimi, antonomasia, ironi, dan pun. Jenis gaya bahasa yang sering digunakan oleh penulis berita laporan sepakbola adalah metafora. Gaya bahasa banyak digunakan oleh wartawan untuk membuat berita laporan sepakbola menjadi lebih menarik, dan untuk membangkitkan emosi pembaca. Penggunaan gaya bahasa dalam berita laporan pertandingan sepakbola dapat dikategorikan menjadi dua fungsi utama, yaitu: menggambarkan interaksi antara pemain atau tim dan mendeskripsikan interpretasi wartawan terhadap peristiwa yang terjadi dalam pertandingan tersebut

Journalistic practices of science popularization in the context of users’ agenda: A case study of „New Scientist”

The article includes a discussion of two models which describe contemporary communication processes in journalism: agenda-setting and news value, indicating the need to expand their research tools to include qualitative methods, and merging the analyses of the reception and the message. It also includes indications as to the possibility, or even the social relevance, of the methods for applying those research perspectives to analysing journalism popularising science. Later, I present the results of an analysis of the content of a sample of 500 most read popular science texts available on the New Scientist website. I demonstrate which thematic areas were valued by the readers, and what values are most commonly applied. Further, upon applying a filter in the form of surveys regarding reader preferences, I discuss the main linguistic devices utilised for controlling readers’ attention. The shaping of the hierarchy of importance of items of news is the result of a dynamic interaction between (1) the thematic priorities and discursive strategies of imposing elite representations of science within media agenda, and (2) the means of negotiating order and values of specific content, which are correlated with readers’ preferences, both in terms of the content and the form of providing popular scientific information

The Trail, 1985-04-04

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Rhoticity in Chinese English: An experimental investigation on the realization of the variant (r) in an Expanding Circle variety

The realization of postvocalic /r/ has been frequently examined in both diachronic and synchronic research on world Englishes, showing a multitude of linguistic and extra-linguistic factors to modulate the degree of rhoticity. Since rhoticity is one of the most important indices of variation across Englishes, it forms an instructive phonological marker to investigate the dynamics of norm formation in emerging varieties. While the Inner and Outer Circle varieties have been extensively studied, there is fairly little research on the variable realization of postvocalic /r/ in the Expanding Circle Englishes. Here, we fill this gap with a study on the degree of rhoticity by highly proficient users of an EFL variety emerging in China, college English teachers, who are pertinent norm providers for EFL learners. We provide a multivariate analysis of phonological and sociolinguistic factors conditioning the degree of rhoticity in Chinese English on the basis of speech production data from 13 participants. Results show that Chinese English is best categorized as marginally rhotic. Concerning the patterning of phonological variables, it aligns more with Inner Circle than Outer Circle Englishes, albeit with significant inter- and intra-speaker variability. We discuss the competing roles of norm orientation, substrate influence, and other relevant variables therein

The Trail, 1983-10-14

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