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News reporting in the Philippines: English in print media
Author(s) -
DAYAG DANILO T.
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-971x.2010.01659.x
Subject(s) - newspaper , drama , salience (neuroscience) , performative utterance , media studies , government (linguistics) , history , sociology , political science , linguistics , psychology , literature , art , philosophy , cognitive psychology
This study aims to determine how a hostage drama in Iraq involving an overseas Filipino worker was framed in English‐language newspapers in the Philippines. Data came from the July 9–25, 2004 issues of five leading English‐language broadsheets in the Philippines. The study found that the event was given maximum salience and prominence by the newspapers. In addition, the participant ‘Philippine government’ was foregrounded; the rest of the participants were backgrounded. In terms of activity, the performative verbs ‘saying’ and ‘asking’ were assigned to the topicalized/thematized participants in the data, thus making these participants agents or actors.