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Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Filología Inglesa
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Abstract
While news reports and editorials may center on very similar experiential
content, obviously, their purposes are very different: to inform in the case of
the report, and to argue for a particular line of thought on a given situation in
the editorial. This paper demonstrates how systemic functional linguistics (SFL)
can highlight just how these different ends are achieved linguistically, focusing
on the textual meta-function through Theme choice and through the use of
textual adjuncts, and on the interpersonal meta-function, through choices in the
system of APPRAISAL, especially through the sub-systems of ATTITUDE and
ENGAGEMENT. Results from analysis of a news report and an editorial show that
the editorial indeed does make recourse to more overtly present interpersonal
devices; this is not to say that the news report disguises the authorial presence
entirely, as textual devices, such as conjuncts like however, indicate what a
writer’s expectations of his/her readers are
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