A Systemic Functional Linguistics Analysis of News Reports on Child Abuse

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چکیده

The general perspectives of child abuse issues are derived from the mainstream media. However, media’s tendency to sensationalise cases attract viewership may distort readers’ understanding and further propagate maltreatment. This study investigates language used in Malaysian news discourse on using Karpenko-Seccombe et al.’s (2020) method analysis Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) as a theoretical framework. qualitative analyses 28 articles published by government-affiliated platform, Star, independent media, Free Malaysia Today. Findings revealed that victims described invisible depersonalised entities while perpetrators individuals with distinct characteristics. Further, transitivity processes found excerpts were Material, Mental, Relational, Verbal, Existential processes. emotive evaluative roles attitudes journalists presenting news. Moreover, direct indirect quotations expose journalists’ need stress importance severity requests delivered actors. Lastly, this benefit students, policymakers, academicians linguistics media studies.

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ژورنال

عنوان ژورنال: International journal of academic research in business & social sciences

سال: 2023

ISSN: ['2308-3816', '2222-6990']

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6007/ijarbss/v13-i5/16829