Sentence examples for news discourse from inspiring English sources

An analysis of a New York Times dataset showed that epistemically modalized statements are pervasive in news discourse and they occur at a significantly higher rate in editorials than in news reports.

Across a larger corpus of ABC TV news reports, from which this text is chosen, the pattern in this text holds across a larger sample of news discourse pertaining to the 2003 Iraqi invasion (Lukin forthcoming).

Although many studies have been conducted in the fields of ideology and news discourse (e.g. Fairclough 1995, Fowler et al. 1979, Fowler 1991, Hodge and Kress 1993 and van Dijk 1998), very few have attempted to investigate the roles of Theme and Rheme in English and Arabic news reports.

Developed initially by Iedema et al. (1994) to describe the patterning of Appraisal choices in news discourse, Voice Theory is defined by Coffin (2006, 150) as "a means of capturing the conventionalized clusterings of [Appraisal] resources that occur within particular discourse domains and in relation to particular genres".

Jaradat's death comes at a time when the treatment of Palestinian prisoners is dominating the news discourse and his passing has already increased protests against the treatment of prisoners on long-term partial hunger strikes.

A physiological justification for termination appeared to be markedly more acceptable in news discourse than one grounded in mental health, emotional or social factors.

However, media and especially news discourses about identity tend to barely reflect that everyday sense of diversity and harmony, and play up a sterile, academic notion of religion as identity-based conflict instead.

Though the ramifications are unclear, the decision appeared to signal that the authorities would seek to keep a firm hand on the news media discourse in Russia as Mr. Putin prepares to run in a presidential election next month.

In my defence, I am trying to be a bit funny – it's not my aim to report the news or discourse sympathetically on people's problems or illnesses.

But instead of accolades for its journalism, Channel 10 is now fighting for its life, and Mr. Netanyahu's hostility toward it is being cast as part of a broader cultural and political war in Israel between the left and the right involving efforts to control the judiciary, the reporting of news and public discourse.

In our public discourse, news of garden-variety violent hate crimes is safely quarantined as the work of looney "fringe" elements.