CONTRASTIVE GENRE ANALYSIS OF NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC

الموضوعات

علوم اللغة

الملخص

As the notion of genre has been recently adopted in the study of language use in different contexts (academic, professional, institutional, etc.) both within and across languages/cultures, this thesis attempts to investigate and contrast English and Arabic newspaper editorials in the light of the theories of genre analysis. The investigation includes the identification of the structural organization of these editorials as moves, their linguistic features as argumentative/persuasive genre, and their metadiscoursal resources. To this effect, samples are taken from four quality newspapers (two from each language). The English newspapers are The Independent and The Guardianand the Arabic are Al-Raya (الراية) and Al-Quds Al-Arabi (القدس العربي). To achieve the objectives stated above, this study adopts an eclectic model dependent on Bhatia's (1993) and Hyland's (2005). This study hypothesizes that English and Arabic newspaper editorials are constructed differently regarding their generic structure, linguistic features, and metadiscoursal resources. To test the validity of these hypotheses and fulfill the aims of the study, a certain procedure has been adopted in that it starts with establishing a theoretical background, then, a model is adopted for the analysis of the data collected. The analysis starts with the English data, then with the Arabic data, and, later, the results are contrasted. The study reveals a number of findings. Firstly, newspaper editorials written in English and Arabic have a relatively similar structural organization regarding the number of moves they are composed of, the classification of these moves as optional/obligatory, and their arrangement. Secondly, their interpersonal metafunction is mostly realized by the declarative mood and they are also similar viii in the use of tense but different in voice. Their linguistic features as a persuasive genre are different across English and Arabic. Thirdly, they utilize metadiscoursal resources differently in that the Arabic newspaper editorials utilize more metadiscoursal resources than their English counterparts do. Moreover, a notable variation is seen in the sub-categories that comprise metadiscoursal resources across the two corpora. This study falls into six chapters. Chapter One is devoted to the introduction, where the problem, aims, hypotheses, procedure, limits, and value of the study are presented. Chapter Two is concerned with establishing a theoretical background. Chapter Three presents a description of the data and the model through which the data will be analyzed. Chapter Four is composed of two sections: the first includes the analysis of the English data and the second includes the analysis of the Arabic data. Chapter Five is concerned with contrasting the results of the analysis in Chapter Four. Finally, Chapter Six contains the conclusions of the study and introduces some recommendations and suggestions for further research work

روابط وملفات

التعريف والنوع

رقم الوثيقة

02a595fc-d959-486b-b6c0-782ea8ce809c

رقم العقد

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نوع الوسائط

Crawler

نوع المحتوى

الرسائل العلمية

صيغة المصدر

رسائل ماجيستير

نوع الملف

pdf text

أسماء الملفات

1000278_1.pdf

بيانات النشر

ترجمة العنوان

تحليل صنفي تقابلي للافتتاحيات الصحفية في الانكليزية والعربية

ألقاب المؤلفين

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اللغة

English

المصدر والدورية

اسم المصدر

CONTRASTIVE GENRE ANALYSIS OF NEWSPAPER EDITORIALS IN ENGLISH AND ARABIC

المحتوى والصفحات

عدد الصفحات

0

كلمات الباحثين

genre, newspapers, newspaper editorials, Arabic, English, discourse analysis, structural organization, linguistic features, metadiscoursal resources, persuasion

إشراف وإعداد

الإشراف

مجيد عبد الحليم الماشطة

الإعداد

امجد كاظم عبيد الركابي

الاقتباسات الببليوغرافية