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Ali, Marwah Kareem; Christopher, Anne A.; Nordin, Munif Zarirruddin Fikri B. – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
This paper examines the discursive structures employed in legitimizing the event of U.S. forces withdrawal from Iraq and identifies them in relation to linguistic features. It attempts to describe the relation between language use and legitimation discursive structures in depicting political events. The paper focuses on the political event of U.S.…
Descriptors: Newspapers, Discourse Analysis, Current Events, Political Issues
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Xu, Bo – English Language Teaching, 2015
On the basis of the three metafunctions in Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL): experiential, interpersonal and textual, the paper makes an analysis of the current news "ROK, DPRK Agree to Defuse Tension after Talks" on China Daily. The paper finds out that the political news has unique features in terms of experiential, interpersonal…
Descriptors: News Reporting, Accuracy, Experiential Learning, Interpersonal Competence