situation. It is the Russian Federation.” [5]
In this example, the quotations from an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council
reproduce the speaker’s statement together with the statement of the opposing party, Russian
Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, that elicited it. In the response under analysis, the combination of
cleft construction and contrast has a heightening effect. The meaning suggested is “it was the
Russian Federation and no one else”.
In this paper we moved on from the vocabulary-based view of the language of the news [1]
to look at the features of news citation as a site for investigating different kinds of expertise
projected into the discourse. To this end, we introduced and illustrated certain ways in which the
selection of the quotations - emphatic syntactic structures - can reinforce the message of the
author. Because of the concise way newspaper texts are written, syntax and vocabulary are both
compressed into an intense concentration of communicative form. Therefore, apart from puns,
alliteration, reference to proverbs and inversions of popular sayings in the headlines, there is
high reliance on existential clauses, syntactic parallelism, anaphora, contrast and cleft
constructions in quotations for conveying the intended implications.
References
1. Conboy, Martin. (2007). ‘The Language of the News.” Routledge
2.Ericson, R. (1999). How journalists visualize fact. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and
Social Science, 560(1), 83–95.
3. Helm, T. “Lords accuse Tories of ‘burying’ review that cleared EU of interference”. The Guardian. 28 Mar
2015.
4.Herman, E., & Chomsky, N. (1988). Manufacturing consent: The political economy of the mass media.
New York: Pantheon.
5. Lally, K. “Ukraine moves against pro-Russian gunmen in east, triggering bloody gun battle”. Washington
Post. April 13, 2014.
6. Roberts, D. “Ukraine PM asks US for 'real support' to prevent further Russian hostility.” The Guardian.
April 20, 2014.
7. Zhongdang Pana & Gerald M. Kosickib. Framing analysis: An approach to news discourse Political
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