Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns
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Michaela Mahlberg
Abstract
The article investigates the link between lexical and textual patterns in newspaper texts. Patterns in newspaper stories strikingly illustrate the relationship between meaning and form. The article presents an analysis of the core move follow* in a corpus of Guardian newspaper texts. The analysis looks at the distribution of move follow* across different sections of the newspaper, it describes the meanings that follow the move pattern, and it investigates the textual positions of the pattern in the newspaper articles. It is shown that the move pattern has a tendency to occur at the beginning of a paragraph and has a preference for the second paragraph in an article. The textual positions of the pattern are linked to the news values that characterise a story. By drawing on the concept of local textual functions and White’s (1997) approach to the structure of newspaper articles, the analysis illustrates how corpus linguistic and textlinguistic approaches can complement one another.
Abstract
The article investigates the link between lexical and textual patterns in newspaper texts. Patterns in newspaper stories strikingly illustrate the relationship between meaning and form. The article presents an analysis of the core move follow* in a corpus of Guardian newspaper texts. The analysis looks at the distribution of move follow* across different sections of the newspaper, it describes the meanings that follow the move pattern, and it investigates the textual positions of the pattern in the newspaper articles. It is shown that the move pattern has a tendency to occur at the beginning of a paragraph and has a preference for the second paragraph in an article. The textual positions of the pattern are linked to the news values that characterise a story. By drawing on the concept of local textual functions and White’s (1997) approach to the structure of newspaper articles, the analysis illustrates how corpus linguistic and textlinguistic approaches can complement one another.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
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Part I. Setting the scene
- Technology and phraseology 15
- Corpus-driven approaches to grammar 33
- Valency – item-specificity and idiom principle 49
- Fowler’s Modern English Usage at the interface of lexis and grammar 69
- The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1) 89
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Part II. Considering the particulars
- The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English 117
- The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that 137
- The historical development of the verb doubt and its various patterns of complementation 153
- The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns 171
- A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions 189
- Revisiting the evidence for objects in English 211
- Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations 229
- Polysemy and lexical priming 247
- Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns 265
- Loud signatures 289
- Index 317
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction 1
-
Part I. Setting the scene
- Technology and phraseology 15
- Corpus-driven approaches to grammar 33
- Valency – item-specificity and idiom principle 49
- Fowler’s Modern English Usage at the interface of lexis and grammar 69
- The psycholinguistic reality of collocation and semantic prosody (1) 89
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Part II. Considering the particulars
- The lexicogrammar of present-day Indian English 117
- The semantic and grammatical overlap of as and that 137
- The historical development of the verb doubt and its various patterns of complementation 153
- The grammatical properties of recurrent phrases with body-part nouns 171
- A corpus-based investigation of cognate object constructions 189
- Revisiting the evidence for objects in English 211
- Lexico-functional categories and complex collocations 229
- Polysemy and lexical priming 247
- Local textual functions of move in newspaper story patterns 265
- Loud signatures 289
- Index 317
