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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"news texts"”.
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A Corpus-Based Study on the Portuguese Translations of English Adversative Coordinating Conjunctions and Adverbs in News Texts
… for this research. The corpus is composed of 59 news articles extracted from the online versions of the British magazine <em>The Economist</em> and the Brazilian newspaper <em>O Estado de São Paulo</em>. While the former contains the original source texts, the latter consists of their respective …
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Misrepresentation and Construction of Meaning in Translation of News Texts in the Context of Conflict and Intervention: the Application of Systemic-Functional Linguistics
… construction of meaning in the translation of news texts in the English and Russian news media. The texts analysed are published online by the U.S. and Russian media. They discuss events in contexts of sociopolitical instability, military conflict and intervention, including: military …
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National identity representation in sport media: the case of China and the U.S.
Based on the interpretation of the newspaper's role in constructing national identity, this study explores the dynamic strategies employed in nationalism constructing in two major newspapers of China and USA during the 2012 London Summer Olympic Games. By situating meanings of news texts into …
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Narrative, conflict and change : journalism in the new South Africa
… do not have a mimetic relationship but that news texts take their shape and structure from prior cultural forms. Developing this point, the study argues that news gathering practices are embedded in a common sense of the moment that is radically shaped by prevailing currents of power. Opening …
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A production and textual analysis of the reporting of EU news in the UK national press
… thesis combines analysis of the production of EU news with analysis of EU news texts appearing in the UK national, daily press. It identifies key forces shaping EU news production and seeks to explain how and why they influence the content of EU press coverage. Forces shaping news production are …
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The discursive construction of national identity by the newspapers in North Cyprus
… of a Turkish Cypriot national identity by the newspapers in North Cyprus. The aim is to discover the representation and reconstruction processes of national identity within the press and examine the various practices employed to mobilise readers around certain national imaginings. Therefore, as …
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Assessing news coverage of the South African Legislative laws
This thesis attempts to examine the news coverage of South Africa’s legislative laws passed by the Parliament, by looking at the coverage of print media using qualitative content analysis. The thesis aims to understand the dominant messages being conveyed within the news texts and reader …
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Approaching Author Identity through First-person Pronouns and Metadiscourse : A study of opinion articles in US news media
… containing first-person pronouns in US opinion news texts. The study has three main goals. The first goal is to establish which first-person pronouns are used by the authors of opinion articles, and which social variables influence or at least correlate with their choice of first-person pronouns …
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Reporting terrorism: Boko Haram in the Nigerian press.
Scores of studies have explored the news media representation of terrorism in the last ten years. Much of this scholarship, however, has been from a western perspective, mostly relating to the international media. This study shifts the focus to the Nigerian press to consider the representation of …
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Discriminative training and acoustic modeling for automatic speech recognition
… (Wall Street Journal and North American Business news texts) up to broadcast news transcription tasks (Hub-4). Questions pursued in this context address the effect that different variance tying schemes have on the recognition performance and to what extent increasing the model complexity affects …