Analyzing of Speech Acts of Al Jazeera and Euronews Headlines Regarding the Russia-Ukraine War
Article Sidebar
Main Article Content
Abstract
Recently, there's been a rise in media attention. As a consequence, various patterns may be discovered from both an academic and an industry aspect. News networks, for instance, play a significant role in informing people all over the world about political conditions, military occurrences, and other topics. The language used during news stories, including headlines, has a significant impact on the communicative aim of such matters. This language is distinguished by a variety of linguistic characteristics. One of such characteristics is pragmatic. Sometimes this problem has received inadequate attention in studies. To be more specific, the use of speech acts as a central component of pragmatics hasn't been adequately addressed in scientific research in this field. As a result, the current study attempts to fill this gap by investigating the types of speech acts employed in the headlines of Al Jazeera and Euronews websites describing the Russia-Ukraine War. Forty-seven headlines have been selected from these news websites - 22 from Aljazeera English and 25 from Euronews. For this goal, the data analysis has utilized Bach and Harnish's (1979) the taxonomy of Speech Acts. This study purports that headlines can be loaded with the encoded pragmatic meanings which makes it worth conducting to reveal those kinds of meanings. The selected period is between 1 to 31 May 2022. In accordance with the data, directives and constatives happened more often than commissives. There is no use for other categories like verdictives, effectives, or acknowledgments. In line with the study, headline writers for the websites Al Jazeera and Euronews stress on the Russia-Ukraine War as preoccupying and impacting the whole world, and they utilize certain speech acts "directives and constatives" more commonly than others. In accordance to the results, making use of certain speech acts when producing headlines is an effective technique to encourage readers to swiftly comprehend what is being conveyed.
Metrics
Article Details
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
References
Al Fahdawi, Y. (2012). A Linguistic Analysis of Passive Forms in Newspaper Headlines. Unpublished M.A. Thesis. University of Anbar.
Al-Hindawi, F. H., & Ali, A. H. (2018). A pragmatic study of CNN and BBC news headlines covering the Syrian conflict. Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 9(3), 43-51.
Almarsomi, M. N., & Juma’a, Q. H. (2021). A Speech Acts Analysis of English COVID-19 News Headlines. Journal of College of Education for Women, (31), 4.
Al-Saedi, H. T. J., & Jabber, K. W. (2020). A pragmatic study of newspaper headlines in media discourse: Iraq as a case study. International Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Translation, 3(3), 48-59
Bach, K., & Harnish, R. M. (1979). Linguistic communication and speech acts. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Bly, R. W.(2013).87 Secrets of Outrageous Business Success: How to Reach Your Goals and Have Fun Doing It. Morgan James Publishing.
Bird, G. & Merwin, F. E. (1955). The Press and Society. New York: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Crystal, D. (2008). A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics. New York: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Crystal, D. (1987). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Danesi, M. (2009). Dictionary of Media and Communications. New York: Armonk, N. Y. Publishing.
Davidson, G.W.(2005).How to Punctuate. England: Penguin Group Ltd.
Holder, John.(2016). Stop Wasting Money on Ineffectual Marketing.Lulu.com.
Iarovici, E. & Amel, R. (1989). The Strategy of the Headline. Semiotica, 77, (4): 441-459.
Isani, S. (2011). Of headlines & headlinese: Towards Distinctive Linguistic and Pragmatic Genericity. ASp. la revue du GERAS, (60), 81-102.
Leech, G. (2006).Glossary of English Grammar. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
Mardh, I. (1980). Headlinese: On the Grammar of English Front-Page Headlines. Lund: Gleerup Publishing LTD.
Muhammed, M. (2005). A Pragmalinguistic Analysis of Selected English Political Newspaper Headlines. Unpublished M.A.Thesis. University of Baghdad.
Naeem, A, T.(2021). Difficulties of Understanding English Breaking News by Iraqi EFL Learners. Unpublished M.A. Thesis. Anbar University.
Phan, T. N. H. (2010). A Study on English Brief News Headlines.Doctoral Dissertation, Đại học Dân lập Hải Phòng.
Praskova, E. (2009). Grammar in Newspaper Headlines. Bachelor paper. University of Pardubice.
Qomariyah, A. N. (2019). A pragmatic study of Jakarta Post and Jakarta Globe new headlines after Indonesian general election 2019. International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 5(4), 128-137.
Quirk, R. & Greenbaum, S. (1973). A University Grammar of English. London. UK: Longman Group UK Limited.
Reah, D. (2002) The Language of Newspaper. 2nd Edition , London: Rutledge.
Runyon, K, E. (1984). Advertising. New York: C. E. Merrill Pub. Co. C.E. Merrill Publishing Company
Rustam, R. (2013). Pragmatic Analysis of CNN Headlines Representing Pakistan (An Unpublished Doctoral Dissertation). University of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Muzaffarabad, Pakistan.
Shams, M. (2002). Practice with Newspapers. Iran: Entesharat Jangle.
Shrivastava, K. (1995). News Reporting and Editing.New Delhi:Sterling Publishers Private Limited.
Swan, M. (2016). Practical English Usage. Oxford:Oxford University Press.
Swick, Ed .(2022). Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar for ESL Learners. McGraw Hill Professional
Tiono, N. (2004). An Analysis on Syntactic and Semantic Factors Found in Newspaper Headlines. M.A. Thesis. Youngstown State University.
Van Dijk, T. A. (1991). Racism and the Press. London. Routledge.
Van Dijk, T. A. (1988). News as discourse. Hillsdale: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers.
Westley, B. (1953). News Editing. USA: Houghton Mifflin Company.
Wolseley, R. E., & Campbell, L. R. (1943). Exploring Journalism: With Special Emphasis on Its Social and Vocational Aspects. Prentice-Hall, Incorporated.