Ukucwaningwa kwama-atikili esiZulu ngemibiko yezindaba ezibuhlungu ezisemaphephandabeni
Date
2008-03
Authors
Nsele, Zandile Victoria
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Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University
Abstract
This study invesitgates a selection of hard news articles in isiZulu that were published in the newspaper Ilanga within the framework of genre theory. The study invokes in particular the orbital structure approach to the organisation of the structure of hard news articles advanced by White (1997) in analysing the isiZulu articles. Hard news reports are typically associated with eruptive violence, reversals of fortune and socially significant breaches of the moral order. Hard news reports are distinguished in terms of two types, namely those reports which are primarily grounded in a material event such as an accident, natural disaster, riot, or terrorist attack, and those reports grounded in a communicative event such as a speech, interview, or press release. The research in this study presents an analysis of four articles in isiZulu of each of these two types. The analysis of the isiZulu articles presents support for White’s view that both types of hard news reports exhibit the same generic structure, a mode of textual organisation unique to mass media which gives hard news its textual distinctiveness. Both types hard news reports achieve their informational and rhetorical objectives through a non-linear, orbital structure in which dependent ‘satelites’ elaborate, explain, contextualize and appraise a textually dominant nucleus.
Description
Thesis (MA (African Languages))--Stellenbosch University, 2008.
Keywords
Zulu language -- Discourse analysis, Mass media and language, Ilanga (Newspaper), Mass media and language -- South Africa, Reporters and reporting -- South Africa, Dissertations -- Zulu language, Theses -- Zulu language