Linguistic analysis of Philippine crime news broadcasts

Authors

  • William Mel Coranes Paglinawan University of Southeastern Philippines - Davao City, Philippines Notre Dame of Dadiangas University - General Santos City, Philippines

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.26555/adjes.v8i2.21694

Keywords:

linguistic analysis, media discourse, linguistics, crime news, Philippine broadcast

Abstract

News stories on negative phenomena such as crime news can stir diverse angles of reality which result in diverse forms of behaviors. This study examined the linguistic devices and discourse strategies employed by the Filipino Journalists in constructing crime news broadcasts. The Linguistic Analysis (LA) framework using the lens of Ilya Romanovich Galperin and van Dijk's Socio-Cognitive Model were used; in which 25 mainstream crime news broadcasted in the Philippine TV from January to May 2015 were collected and transcribed. The findings revealed that phonetic devices such as alliteration, cacophony, assonance, rhyme and onomatopoeia were present in the corpus; lexical devices like epithet, metonymy, epigram, pleonasm, personification, and zeugma; and, syntactical devices such as enumeration, gap-sentence-link, asyndeton, rhetorical questions were mostly demonstrated in the sentences of the research corpora. Moreover, Filipino Journalists had utilized strategies such as, use of figures and statistics, metaphorization; authoritarianism; blame transfer; dysphemism; positive-self and negative-other; and source avoidance strategy. These devices and strategies made most of the statements contextual and implied. In addition, it was also revealed in the analyses that Philippine dialectical terms and neologisms were evident strategies used by the Filipino Journalist in assisting audiences to better appreciate, comprehend and discover the truth in news broadcasting.

Author Biography

William Mel Coranes Paglinawan, University of Southeastern Philippines - Davao City, Philippines Notre Dame of Dadiangas University - General Santos City, Philippines

Mr William Mel C. Paglinawan is University Instructor at the Notre Dame of Dadiangas University (NDDU) in General Santos City, Philippines. He earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts major in Mass Communication and also a Masters Degree in English with specialization in Applied Linguistics. In 2017, he joined the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, USA as an exchange scholar and adjunct professor through the Fulbright Scholarship Grant. In the university, he handled various classes including teaching languages, journalism, methods of research and critical media and communication studies. Moreover, his research interest draws on the theories and methods from applied linguistics, journalism, up to media and communication studies mostly on how media topics are communicated in the society. He also works in areas of corpus linguistics, particularly in relation to Discourse Analysis (DA), Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), or in recent diachronic change. He also works on topics such as the representation of identity, especially gender and sexuality and analysis of news or online corpora.

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