چکیده:
This study examined academic articles and journalistic reports in 5
disciplinary areas to explore how similar contents might attitudinally
be realized in two different genres. To this end, 25 research articles
and 210 news reports were carefully selected and underwent detailed
discourse semantic and grammatical analyses with the purpose of
identifying the evaluative linguistic patterns. The findings showed that
academic texts are attitudinally charged with appreciation rather than
other categories of attitude. This suggests that markers of appreciation
are responsible for detachment, impersonality, and objectivity. On the
contrary, notwithstanding the frequent use of appreciation in
journalistic texts, other categories of attitude (affect and judgment) are
also effectively used. This suggests that affective and judgment
markers account for the subjectivity of journalistic texts. One of the
findings emerging from this study is that frequent instances of
appreciation in the different parts of an RA might be attributed to the
development of language use within an individual which does not lead
to lowering the level of objectivity in academic texts but enhancing
interpersonal communication.
خلاصه ماشینی:
Keywords: Academic and journalistic texts, appraisal framework, attitudinal resources, evaluative language, lexico-grammatical Resources Received: 27/07/2018 Accepted: 17/11/2018 Corresponding author Academic discourse is a social, cognitive, and rhetorical process (Duff, 2010) which describes language uses and thinking ways that exist in the academia (Hyland, 2009).
In order to explore the discursive values, rhetorical strategies, and disciplinary differences in the balance of attitudinal resources in two different genres (academic & journalistic), the present study first sets out to seek what kinds of attitudinal resources are used in research articles (RA) and news reports (NR) in individual domains of science.
, Hyland, 1998, 2000), cultural identities of academic writers (Fløttum, Dahl & Kinn, 2006), cross-linguistic and cross- cultural perspectives on academic discourse (Suomela-salmi & Dervin, 2009), university genre (Biber, 2006), citation practices in research (Charles, 2006; Hyland, 1999; Swales, 1981; Tadros 1993; Thompson, 2000, 2005), and evaluation (Del Lungo Camiciotti & Tognini Bonelli, 2004).
In the other category, linguistic parameters were explored in studying discursive levels of news (Bell, 1991; Ungerer, 2004; White, 1997, 1998), newspaper discourse (Biber, 2003; Ljung, 2002; Minugh, 2000; Schneider, 2000), cross-cultural study of stance disaster news reports (Liu & Stevenson, 2013), conversational analysis of media discourse (Clayman, 1990; Greatbatch, 1998), the relationship between cognitive processes and journalistic meaning (van Dijk, 1988a, 1988b), the history of newspaper discourse (Cotter, 1996; Schneider, 1999, 2000), news-making practices (Bell, 1991), power and ideology (Caldas-Coulthard, 2003; Fairclough, 1995a, 1995b; Fowler, 1991; van Dijk, 1988a, 1988b; Weiss & Wodak, 2003; White, 1998), and style and social factors (Bell, 1991; Jucker, 1992).