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Critical Discourse Analysis of Online News Headlines in English Reporting on the COVID-19 Pandemic
2022. urn:nbn:hr:142:086934
Pranjić, Matej
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Pranjić, M. (2022). Critical Discourse Analysis of Online News Headlines in English Reporting on the COVID-19 Pandemic (Master's thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:086934

Pranjić, Matej. "Critical Discourse Analysis of Online News Headlines in English Reporting on the COVID-19 Pandemic." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:086934

Pranjić, Matej. "Critical Discourse Analysis of Online News Headlines in English Reporting on the COVID-19 Pandemic." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2022. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:086934

Pranjić, M. (2022). 'Critical Discourse Analysis of Online News Headlines in English Reporting on the COVID-19 Pandemic', Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 12 November 2024, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:086934

Pranjić M. Critical Discourse Analysis of Online News Headlines in English Reporting on the COVID-19 Pandemic [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2022 [cited 2024 November 12] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:086934

M. Pranjić, "Critical Discourse Analysis of Online News Headlines in English Reporting on the COVID-19 Pandemic", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2022. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:086934

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TitleCritical Discourse Analysis of Online News Headlines in English Reporting on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Title (croatian)Kritička analiza diskursa mrežnih novinskih naslova na engleskom jeziku o pandemiji bolesti COVID-19
AuthorMatej Pranjić
MentorTanja Gradečak (mentor)
Committee memberTanja Gradečak (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberGoran Milić (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberDubravka Vidaković Erdeljić (član povjerenstva)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2022-10-06, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
This paper studies the degree of congruence between the headlines and text bodies in The Guardian and the Daily Mail reporting on the COVID-19 pandemic. The hypothesis is that The Guardian should be less sensationalist, less politically and negatively biased than the Daily Mail, as well as scoring a higher degree of congruence. The research is based on the framework provided by the approach of Critical Discourse Analysis. The paper first outlines the theoretical preliminaries necessary for the methodology, drawing on recent studies in the field of Critical Discourse Analysis, especially the studies that analyse online discourse on the pandemic, as well as ideology and negativity bias in news discourse. Additionally, the paper outlines and defines key concepts of congruence analysis, namely cohesion and coherence, which this paper uses to establish the working definition of congruence as a spectrum ranging from incongruence to complete congruence. In the section on methodology, a detailed account of the corpus is presented as well as the specifics of the method to determine the degree of congruence between the headline and the text body. The discussion of the results shows that the hypothesis was only partially verified since there is no significant difference in the degree of congruence between The Guardian and the Daily Mail. The paper concludes that the similarities may be because The Guardian underwent a change in format bringing it closer to a tabloid, and that during the early days of the pandemic, there was no significant ideological polarisation between the left and right-wing news sources.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:086934
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology
Course: Teacher Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra edukacije engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra edukacije engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: Croatian Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Research Studies
Course: Teacher Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra edukacije hrvatskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra edukacije hrvatskog jezika i književnosti)
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