Interpersonal Metadiscourse Markers and Appraisal Portrayed in BBC’s Corona Virus News Report

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10.2991/assehr.k.210421.115How to use a DOI?

Keywords

BBC News, Interpersonal Metadiscourse Markers, Appraisal Theory

Abstract

The current pandemic study has not been much discussed, especially one focusing on interpersonal metadiscourse markers and appraisal use. Consequently, this study is significant in reporting the descriptive analysis of the features of interpersonal metadiscourse markers and appraisal appearing in the BBC News reports that discussed Corona Virus. A discourse analysis approach is used to examine the interlocutors’ phenomena of metadiscourse within the discourse. The study results revealed that the way the speaker delivered the argument was denoted by the presence of interpersonal metadiscourse markers to convey a message. Thus, it demonstrated the way the speakers attempted to engage the listeners in the discourse. Moreover, the findings also revealed that the appraisal framework’s application contributed to the markers formerly being analyzed. Consequently, it elucidated how the speaker delivered their arguments by applying evidential, hedges, boosters, attitude markers, and self-mention.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Achmad Firdaus
AU  - Mira Shartika
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/04/22
TI  - Interpersonal Metadiscourse Markers and Appraisal Portrayed in BBC’s Corona Virus News Report
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference on Engineering, Technology and Social Science (ICONETOS 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 794
EP  - 802
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210421.115
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210421.115
ID  - Firdaus2021
ER  -