News reporting in the Philippines: English in print media

College

Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education

Department/Unit

Dept of English and Applied Linguistics

Document Type

Article

Source Title

World Englishes

Volume

29

Issue

3

First Page

349

Last Page

363

Publication Date

9-1-2010

Abstract

This study aims to determine how a hostage drama in Iraq involving an overseas Filipino worker was framed in English-language newspapers in the Philippines. Data came from the July 9-25, 2004 issues of five leading English-language broadsheets in the Philippines. The study found that the event was given maximum salience and prominence by the newspapers. In addition, the participant 'Philippine government' was foregrounded; the rest of the participants were backgrounded. In terms of activity, the performative verbs 'saying' and 'asking' were assigned to the topicalized/thematized participants in the data, thus making these participants agents or actors. © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

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Digitial Object Identifier (DOI)

10.1111/j.1467-971X.2010.01659.x

Disciplines

English Language and Literature | Journalism Studies

Keywords

Journalism—Authorship; English language—Philippines

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