Fig. 2: The analyzing structure of topoi in reported speech is based on Wodak’s argument scheme. | Humanities and Social Sciences Communications

Fig. 2: The analyzing structure of topoi in reported speech is based on Wodak’s argument scheme.

From: A corpus-based discourse analysis of China’s national image constructed by environmental news in The New York Times

Fig. 2

The refined analyzing structure of topoi was utilized in this study. The dashed box represents viewpoints that are not reflected in the written manifestation in the news discourse. The contextualization of each component within the general structure of topoi in news discourse is represented by dashed lines. The solid arrow indicates the logical framework in topoi. When the content of a news report shows certain premises and conclusion rules in certain topos, readers are inclined to draw a conclusion according to the logic of these topos. The views accepted by the readers (the “claim”) may suggest the persuasive intentions of the newspaper (the “argument”).

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