Cross-Cultural Study of Lexical Cohesion in Political Newspaper Articles
This study examined the use of lexical cohesion in English political news articles published in local and international English newspapers. To this end, a corpus of 40,000 words (20,000 in each corpus) were randomly collected from political news articles published in international English newspapers...
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| author | Maryam Farnia Nafiseh Kabiri |
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| description | This study examined the use of lexical cohesion in English political news articles published in local and international English newspapers. To this end, a corpus of 40,000 words (20,000 in each corpus) were randomly collected from political news articles published in international English newspapers (e.g. the Washington Post, the New York Times) and local English newspapers (e.g. Iran Front Page, Tehran Times) from January to December, and were analyzed based on Tanskanen’s classification of lexical cohesion. The findings showed that international English newspapers used statistically more substitution, equivalence, contrast, activity related, and elaborative collocations than local English newspapers. On the other hand, local English newspapers used significantly more simple repetition, complex repetition, generalization, specification, co-specification, and order set collocation when writing political news article. Additionally, there was a significant difference between the two groups in subset of reiteration and collocation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-849cb93e00e34eea976265f3f71292b52022-12-21T22:36:19ZaraLanguage ArtHunar-i zabān2476-65262538-27132020-11-01549310810.22046/LA.2020.24201Cross-Cultural Study of Lexical Cohesion in Political Newspaper ArticlesMaryam Farnia0Nafiseh Kabiri1Assistant Professor of Applied Linguistics, Department of English Language and Literature, Payame Noor UniversityMA in English Language Teaching, Department of English Language and Literature, Payame Noor UniversityThis study examined the use of lexical cohesion in English political news articles published in local and international English newspapers. To this end, a corpus of 40,000 words (20,000 in each corpus) were randomly collected from political news articles published in international English newspapers (e.g. the Washington Post, the New York Times) and local English newspapers (e.g. Iran Front Page, Tehran Times) from January to December, and were analyzed based on Tanskanen’s classification of lexical cohesion. The findings showed that international English newspapers used statistically more substitution, equivalence, contrast, activity related, and elaborative collocations than local English newspapers. On the other hand, local English newspapers used significantly more simple repetition, complex repetition, generalization, specification, co-specification, and order set collocation when writing political news article. Additionally, there was a significant difference between the two groups in subset of reiteration and collocation.https://www.languageart.ir/index.php/LA/article/view/201lexicalcohesionnewspaper articlepolitical discourse |
| spellingShingle | Maryam Farnia Nafiseh Kabiri Cross-Cultural Study of Lexical Cohesion in Political Newspaper Articles Hunar-i zabān lexical cohesion newspaper article political discourse |
| title | Cross-Cultural Study of Lexical Cohesion in Political Newspaper Articles |
| title_full | Cross-Cultural Study of Lexical Cohesion in Political Newspaper Articles |
| title_fullStr | Cross-Cultural Study of Lexical Cohesion in Political Newspaper Articles |
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| title_short | Cross-Cultural Study of Lexical Cohesion in Political Newspaper Articles |
| title_sort | cross cultural study of lexical cohesion in political newspaper articles |
| topic | lexical cohesion newspaper article political discourse |
| url | https://www.languageart.ir/index.php/LA/article/view/201 |
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