CHAPTER 1 : INTRODUCTION
This chapter will discuss mainly about the research background, the problem statement, the purpose of the study, research objectives and also its questions as well.
Other than that, the significance of this research will be discussed as well along with this research limitation and scope. This study will be based on Fairclough framework of dimensions of discourse and discourse analysis.
So, this research will focus on discourse analysis which involving the scope of sport news headlines analysis. The researcher aims to investigate the relation between the headlines of sports news with how the elements which been embedded in it actually effects the understanding by the reader itself.
1.1 Research Background
Under Malaysian context, previously when planning for the proposal of this research; the researcher find that the sources available for this topic were very limited or none at all.
Later on, after the researcher had completed this research; hopefully it will be available as one from the many small academics writings which actually related to this topic, especially when it covers under Malaysian context
1.2 Problem Statement
This study aims to examine the differences which occur between New Straits Times and The Star sports news headlines. Thus, it will affect the reader perception towards the news itself.
1.3 Purpose Of The Research
This research is being conducted in order to investigate on what were the differences which occur among sports headline between New Straits Times and The Star newspaper.
Other than that, this research also aims to search for any linguistic features which also involved in the headline structure as well and how it actually effect the readers’ perception.
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...ut what element was actually being embedded in each layer of this framework. By understanding the elements hidden, the analysis could be better as the researcher understands more about the text itself.
In this latter framework, he explains about what actually happened in each analysis. Like in the text analysis, it basically describes on what was the text actually about. Meanwhile, in the processing analysis; the interpretation of the reader was involved in helping the reader to understand the text. It actually relates back to how the discourse were used within the text itself and also much more importantly, the reader’s discourse practice.
Last but not least, in the social analysis; the explanation given must relate both to the discourse and sociocultural practice which the reader actually was to avoid any misunderstanding and conflict while reading the text.
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