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الخطاب الصحفي العربي مظاهر بلاغية، أدوات الخطاب، استراتيجيات و تنظيمات
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محمد الجراح( باحث )
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هدفت هذه الدراسة إلى استقصاء الخصائص البلاغية الرئيسة في خطاب الصحافة العربية. و لذلك اِختُبِرِت مقتطفات من صحيفتين أردنيتين من الصحف المشهورة في الأردن و حلَِّلت هذه النصوص و عولِجتْ. تبين نتائج هذه الدراسة أن إحدى الخصائص لهذا النوع من الخطاب هو التكرار أي تكرار المفردة اللغوية نفسها. و تظهر الدراسة أيضا خاصة أخرى و هي الاستخدام الواضح للعبارات التقييمية من أجل دعم وجهة نظر الكاتب. فضلاً عن ذلك تبين نتائج هذه الدراسة أن الخطاب الصحفي في العربية يوضح العلاقات القائمة بين أجزاء الجمل، و خصوصاً علاقة الأجزاء التابعة بالعبارة الرئيسية، و أن أدوات الخطاب الصحفي بالعربية تستخدم لتوضيح علاقات التباين في المعنى بين الجمل الخبرية في هذا النوع من الخطاب.
The aim of this investigation is to explore the main rhetorical features of an Arabic newspaper discourse. To this end, extracts form two popular Jordanian newspapers were analyzed. The results of this study indicate that one of the features of this type of discourse is redundancy, i.e. repetition of the same lexical item. Another feature is the explicit use of evaluative statements to support the writer’s point of view. Moreover, the results of this study revealed that Arabic newspaper discourse clearly marks clause relations especially subordinating clauses, and that discourse markers are mainly used to mark the relationships of contrast between or among propositions in this type of discourse.
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Al-Jubouri, Adnan, J.R. (1983) "The Role of Repetition in Arabic Argumentative Discourse". In Swales, J. and Mustafa, H. (eds.) English for Specific Purposes in the Arab World, PP.99-117. The Language Studies Unit, University of Aston, Birmingham: UK
Agee, W., Ault, P. and Emery, E.(1983) Reporting and writing the news. Harper and Row Publishers: New York
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