Reporting Conflict: Appraising Journalists’ Voice in Pakistani Newspaper Discourse

Tazanfal Tehseem, Sarwat Jabeen and Abdul Rashid

Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, 2020, vol. 6, issue 2, 669-687

Abstract: This paper aims at evaluating journalist voice in the Pakistani print media discourse. Journalists are supposed to make valuefree reporting, but the analysis of& newspaper texts shows that the journalists appraise and the news reports voice newspapers’ stance& (Bednarek, 2006). Therefore, media discourses always present a particular left or rightwing stance loaded with subjective evaluations (White and Thompson, 2008). While previous studies have focused on reportage phenomena of different news genres and perspective comparisons with a primary focus on language in the context of politics for an ideology, this paper explores evaluative patterns - based on the appraisal framework (Martin and White, 2005) of discourse analysis developed within Systemic Functional Linguistics (Halliday and Matthiessen, 2014) with a focus on appraisal domains of attitude, engagement and graduation - in Pakistani news reporting to find a reporter voice. The analysis shows that the said news reporting is not value free.

Keywords: Reporter voice; newspaper discourse; appraisal analysis; ideology (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.26710/jbsee.v6i2.1175

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