A 10-Year-Old Girl’s Overcoming the Negative Mother Complex and Its Relationship to Ego Development

A 10-Year-Old Girl’s Overcoming the Negative Mother Complex and Its Relationship to Ego Development

This paper explores the generic features of fact-checking articles, a new genre in newspaper discourse, by examining 40 fact-checking articles from The Fact Checker of the Washington Post and PolitiFact of the Tampa Bay Times. The study centers on the qualitative and quantitative analysis on the move structure, rhetorical structure, and linguistic strategies of these articles. The analysis on the move structure reveals that the communicative purpose of examining the truth value of political statements is achieved through six obligatory and three optional move components and that the move structure of these articles is realized in various forms. With regard to the rhetorical structure, the analysis demonstrates that the journalists present their arguments more persuasively through various semantic and pragmatic relations. Fact-checking articles have linguistic characteristics as well, especially in terms of direct quotes, tense, modal auxiliary verbs, exclusive we, and appraisal. The analysis finds that the use and function of these linguistic features are related with the property of the move component in which they occur. Based on these findings, this study suggests that fact-checking articles have a hybrid nature of straight news and editorials but are more similar to editorials than to straight news.

This paper explores the generic features of fact-checking articles, a new genre in newspaper discourse, by examining 40 fact-checking articles from The Fact Checker of the Washington Post and PolitiFact of the Tampa Bay Times. The study centers on the qualitative and quantitative analysis on the move structure, rhetorical structure, and linguistic strategies of these articles. The analysis on the move structure reveals that the communicative purpose of examining the truth value of political statements is achieved through six obligatory and three optional move components and that the move structure of these articles is realized in various forms. With regard to the rhetorical structure, the analysis demonstrates that the journalists present their arguments more persuasively through various semantic and pragmatic relations. Fact-checking articles have linguistic characteristics as well, especially in terms of direct quotes, tense, modal auxiliary verbs, exclusive we, and appraisal. The analysis finds that the use and function of these linguistic features are related with the property of the move component in which they occur. Based on these findings, this study suggests that fact-checking articles have a hybrid nature of straight news and editorials but are more similar to editorials than to straight news.