What is it about?
This paper examines the stances and mediation indicated in global news headlines of four international news events which happened between the years 2008-2010. It draws on the Appraisal Theory, which was developed by Martin and White (2005) upon Halliday’s (1978, 1995) SFL, as the theoretical support for the analysis.
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Why is it important?
The analysis shows that global news headlines involve working with discourse that is heavily mediated and recontextualized, in which the transeditors put their own knowledge and values into the transedited texts.
Perspectives
It is argued that when value-loaded discourse is an indication of a stance adopted, an absence of such discourse in news headlines, or even an absence of reporting on a particular event may also be an indication of a stance adopted by a news agency.
Meifang ZHANG
University of Macau
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This page is a summary of: Stance and mediation in transediting news headlines as paratexts, Perspectives, September 2013, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/0907676x.2012.691101.
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