Aug 2026· Frontiers in Communication· Vol 11· 0 citations· 36 references
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Drawing on genre analysis and corpus-based translation studies, this study examines rhetorical hype in Chinese government White Papers published between 2020 and 2023 and their official English translations. Rhetorical hype is defined as evaluative and promotional language that heightens the perceived importance, novelty, effectiveness, scope, or desirability of policies, actions, knowledge claims, and accomplishments, with its individual lexical realizations termed hyperbolic items.
Using a sentence-level move scheme adapted from previous genre studies, the study identifies seven move types and focuses on the three most extensive moves: Detailing Actions, Presenting Epistemic Knowledge, and Presenting Accomplishments. Hyperbolic items were identified using a candidate lexicon compiled from previous studies and lexical resources, followed by contextual validation and examination of aligned source–target units. Descriptive frequency analysis was combined with qualitative analysis of translation patterns across the three moves.
The English translations contain fewer hyperbolic items overall than the Chinese source texts. Presenting Accomplishments exhibits the highest normalized frequency of hyperbolic items in both corpora, whereas the relative distribution of such items in Detailing Actions and Presenting Epistemic Knowledge differs between the source and target texts. Qualitative analysis reveals three major translation patterns—attenuation, retention, and amplification—with attenuation predominating in the sampled data.
The findings indicate that the English translations display a more restrained evaluative profile than the Chinese source texts, a pattern compatible with target-oriented institutional mediation. By integrating rhetorical move analysis with the analysis of evaluative language, this study offers a more context-sensitive account of rhetorical hype in political discourse translation and demonstrates the value of combining genre-based and corpus-based approaches to institutional translation.
The analysis shows that most mismatches follow a recurring pattern in which a French passé composé reporting the students’ own methods, results, or attribution to prior research is rendered in the English present tense, blurring the distinction between the students’ specific findings and established disciplinary knowledge.
Kaoutar Atarchi, Abdelkrim Elamari, Mohamed Marouane· International Journal of Lin...· 0 citations
This study employs a mixed-methods design to investigate how conceptual metaphors function as devices of ideological framing in Pakistani English-language newspapers. The qualitative strand is grounded in Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff & Johnson, 1980) and Charteris-Black's (2004) Critical Metaphor Analysis, integrated with Entman's (1993) framing theory, to interpret how source domains such as War, Journey, Disease, and Natural Disaster are mapped onto target domains of politics, economy, and security to naturalize particular worldviews; the quantitative strand converts identified metaphors into frequency counts, percentages, and collocation (MI) scores, tested for cross-newspaper association using chi-square analysis. The study addresses the scarcity of mixed-methods, corpus-based cognitive-pragmatic research on English print journalism within Pakistan's multilingual media landscape. Data were drawn from a purpose-built corpus of opinion editorials collected from five leading Pakistani English newspapers — Dawn, The News International, The Express Tribune, Pakistan Today, and Business Recorder — published between January and December 2025, drawn from an estimated population of 1,800 editorials. A purposive sample of 150 editorials (30 per newspaper), totaling approximately 120,000 words, was analyzed using AntConc for concordance, collocation, and frequency analysis, following Charteris-Black's three-stage identification–interpretation–explanation procedure. Findings reveal a statistically and qualitatively dominant reliance on War and economy-as-Patient metaphors, which construct crises as adversarial and precarious, reinforcing elite-centred and nationalistic ideological positioning across outlets. The study contributes a replicable mixed-methods framework for analyzing metaphor and ideology in South Asian print media.
Muhammad Shahrugh Bukhari, M. Siddique, Rai Muhammad Aon Raza et al.· Journal of Arts and Linguist...· 0 citations
The aim of the study was to identify the influence of syntactic structures on meaning formation and information perception in different types of discourse, such as political, media, economic, scientific, legal, and artistic discourse. Syntactic strategies in official and literary texts were investigated, with a focus on their adaptation in international and Kazakhstani contexts. The research methodology, based on discourse and comparative analysis, revealed the role of syntax in text organization and meaning transmission. The study analyzed examples from political, media, and literary texts, as well as official speeches, which showed how complex sentences, parallelism, ellipsis, and inversion structure information and enhance the impact on the audience. The results of the study showed that syntactic constructions play a key role in creating logical coherence and managing rhetoric in different discourses. Syntax adapts according to genre, reflecting the characteristics of each text type. In political discourses, complex structures help to formulate multilayered arguments and draw attention to key points. Media discourses use short sentences for news and more complex structures for analyses, providing in-depth analyses of topics. Legal discourse relies on precise and multi-structured sentences, which are necessary to unambiguously understand legal rules and avoid ambiguity. Economic texts apply complex structures to analyze global trends, drawing on data and forecasts. In scientific discourses, formal structures contribute to the logical organization of argumentation. In fiction texts, syntax conveys the emotional states of characters, creating a multilayered perception and depth of the inner world.
Zhibek Issayeva, A. Kairambayeva, N. Solovyova et al.· The International Journal of...· 0 citations
Tense shifts are an essential feature of narrative discourse because they help writers organize events, establish temporal relationships, and guide readers through the development of a text. While English tense has been widely examined from grammatical and semantic perspectives, relatively few studies have explored how tense shifts contribute to narrative coherence across different genres. This study investigates the functions of tense shifts in literary, academic, and journalistic texts and examines how they influence readers' understanding of temporal relationships and the overall coherence of a narrative. A qualitative research design was adopted, combining discourse analysis of twenty purposively selected English-language texts with a reader-response survey involving twenty English-proficient participants. The analysis identified the most common patterns of tense shifting and examined how these patterns affected temporal organization, textual clarity, and reader engagement. The findings suggest that carefully managed tense shifts, particularly transitions from the past simple to the past perfect and the selective use of the present tense within predominantly past-tense narratives, make the sequence of events easier to follow and strengthen narrative coherence. In contrast, tense changes that are not supported by clear contextual cues may interrupt the flow of the narrative and increase the effort required for interpretation. The study shows that effective tense management functions not only as a grammatical feature but also as an important discourse strategy that supports clear and coherent communication across different genres. These findings provide useful insights for writers, educators, editors, and translators while contributing to ongoing research in discourse analysis and narrative studies.
This qualitative comparative discourse-analytical study examines how selected English-language media texts framed events of the Second Karabakh War through event nomination, agency, attribution, legal-status labels, humanitarian representation, place naming, and verification vocabulary. The primary corpus comprises 69 texts published by 11 Azerbaijani, Türkiye-based, and international outlets between 27 September and 10 November 2020. A separate BBC Reality Check article is examined as a contextual verification case and is excluded from corpus counts. Full reports were consulted for context, while systematic lexical coding focused mainly on headlines and leads, with selected article co-text used in five cases. Article-level coding shows that legal-restorative framing was the most common primary frame in the Azerbaijani subset (18/34; 52.9%) and the Türkiye-based subset (8/16; 50.0%). The international subset was more evenly distributed across diplomatic-outcome and humanitarian frames (5/19; 26.3% each), military-operational and attributional-evidential frames (4/19; 21.1% each), and military-outcome framing (1/19; 5.3%). The article proposes contextual-semantic adequacy as a multidimensional category encompassing denotational fit, agency visibility, evidential calibration, attribution transparency, legal-context explicitness, humanitarian specificity, toponymic transparency, and digital verification. The bounded conflict serves as the empirical setting for a transferable analytical framework. Because the corpus is purposive and heterogeneous, and the verification analysis is based on a single contextual case, the findings describe patterns in the sampled materials rather than entire media systems.
Abstract. Driven by institutional pressures on second-language scholars to publish in internationally indexed journals, this systematic review evaluates two decades (2006–2026) of empirical literature on research article introductions in the English-Vietnamese context to address the persistent divide between macro-structural and micro-linguistic analytical traditions. Guided by an adapted PRISMA 2020 protocol, 45 empirical studies retrieved from Web of Science, Scopus, and Google Scholar were systematically selected and synthesized through qualitative thematic coding and descriptive content analysis. The synthesis demonstrates that existing literature has largely evolved along two parallel trajectories comprising macro-level move analyses (22 studies) and micro-level cohesion investigations (17 studies) with only six studies examining their interaction. While genre based research shows that Vietnamese authors frequently favor indirect niche establishment strategies in Move 2, cohesion focused studies report distinct tendencies in conjunction deployment and thematic progression, thereby uncovering three major gaps including the methodological separation between structural and textual analysis, the lack of move specific functional accounts of cohesive ties, and the limited integration of linguistic typology with discourse practices. To bridge these gaps, this review proposes an integrated conceptual framework that treats communicative functions as the functional context for lexicogrammatical choices, offering a unified model for future contrastive research and establishing pedagogical directions for academic writing instruction.
Duc V. Le· Technium Social Sciences Jou...· 0 citations
