Engagement resources in the English news texts of two phases in China’s constructing Greater Bay Area
AbstractThis study examined the similarities and differences in the distribution and quantitative use of engagement resources in the English news texts of two phases which are demarcated by an important document issued by the Chinese government in constructing the Greater Bay Area (GBA) by drawing o...
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| description | AbstractThis study examined the similarities and differences in the distribution and quantitative use of engagement resources in the English news texts of two phases which are demarcated by an important document issued by the Chinese government in constructing the Greater Bay Area (GBA) by drawing on the engagement framework of the appraisal system in Systemic Functional Linguistics. Sixty English news reports of these two phases, each with a length of 800–1200 words, were collected and all the engagement resources were coded and calculated on the UAM corpus tool (version 6) before comparisons were made in terms of the quantitative use and distribution of each sub-category. The findings show that more dialogic expansion resources are present in the English news texts on GBA than dialogic contraction resources and that the most used and the least used strategies in the news reports are entertain resources and distance resources respectively. Moreover, in terms of the comparison of the sub-category, the distribution of the endorse strategy is significantly different in these two phases. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-15b291af3a3c48fdbc0888551cce550b2023-12-03T02:14:21ZengTaylor & Francis GroupCogent Arts & Humanities2331-19832023-12-0110110.1080/23311983.2023.2243076Engagement resources in the English news texts of two phases in China’s constructing Greater Bay AreaFan Cao0The Department of Foreign Linguistics and Literatures, Tsinghua University, Beijing, ChinaAbstractThis study examined the similarities and differences in the distribution and quantitative use of engagement resources in the English news texts of two phases which are demarcated by an important document issued by the Chinese government in constructing the Greater Bay Area (GBA) by drawing on the engagement framework of the appraisal system in Systemic Functional Linguistics. Sixty English news reports of these two phases, each with a length of 800–1200 words, were collected and all the engagement resources were coded and calculated on the UAM corpus tool (version 6) before comparisons were made in terms of the quantitative use and distribution of each sub-category. The findings show that more dialogic expansion resources are present in the English news texts on GBA than dialogic contraction resources and that the most used and the least used strategies in the news reports are entertain resources and distance resources respectively. Moreover, in terms of the comparison of the sub-category, the distribution of the endorse strategy is significantly different in these two phases.https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23311983.2023.2243076news textsGreater Bay Areaengagement frameworkdialogic space |
| spellingShingle | Fan Cao Engagement resources in the English news texts of two phases in China’s constructing Greater Bay Area Cogent Arts & Humanities news texts Greater Bay Area engagement framework dialogic space |
| title | Engagement resources in the English news texts of two phases in China’s constructing Greater Bay Area |
| title_full | Engagement resources in the English news texts of two phases in China’s constructing Greater Bay Area |
| title_fullStr | Engagement resources in the English news texts of two phases in China’s constructing Greater Bay Area |
| title_full_unstemmed | Engagement resources in the English news texts of two phases in China’s constructing Greater Bay Area |
| title_short | Engagement resources in the English news texts of two phases in China’s constructing Greater Bay Area |
| title_sort | engagement resources in the english news texts of two phases in china s constructing greater bay area |
| topic | news texts Greater Bay Area engagement framework dialogic space |
| url | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/23311983.2023.2243076 |
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