The reporter's voice in hard news reports in English and Japanese – views from context, semantics, and lexicogrammar*

Ayako OCHI
(Macquarie University)

ABSTRACT: The present paper provides an outline of the research framework for describing and modelling a domain of language construing the reporter’s assessment (or appraisal) within the register of hard news reporting in English and Japanese. It proposes the way of modelling a system of interpersonal semantics in Japanese. The research will suggests that a meaning can be illuminated by finding evidences within lexicogrammar.

Key words: appraisal, hard news, lexicogrammar, English and Japanese

* The framework of this paper has been developed based on my MA Thesis submitted in August 2005 and my presentation at Division of Linguistics & Psychology Postgraduate Research Festival held at Macquarie University in December 2005.