How “my” role is concealed or revealed: A corpus-based research of Malaysian Airline media statements

Li XIA

Abstract


This study adopts a corpus-based approach by creating two sub corpus comprising official media statements released by Malaysian Airline regarding its two captioned aeronautic incidents, namely MH370 and MH17 outbroke in the year 2014. Critical discourse analysis and systemic functional linguistics as two analytical frameworks empowered the corpus-based approach. Very distinctive self-portraits of Malaysian Airline in these two incidents have been found through the analysis of key wording, collocations and occurrence of wording. This study suggests that the deliberate choice of wording in media discourse by text producer is affected by its role in positioning in the regarding incidents.  A combination use of different linguistic analytical frameworks can help us to understand how the hidden meaning by the text producer is implicitly mentioned or explicitly expressed through the passage of wording.


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corpus-based approach, MH370, MH17, critical discourse analysis, systemic functional linguistics, media discourse

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3968/13654

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