Linguistic Strategies in Disaster News Narrativesof Tropical Storm Yagi
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This research aims to analyze linguistic strategies employed in natural disaster news narratives, with a case study of news reports on Typhoon Yagi. The data consist of 270 news reports concerning the impacts of Typhoon Yagi in Chiang Rai Province, Thailand, retrieved from 10 online news agencies. The findings reveal four categories of linguistic strategies: (1) Lexical strategies, including lexical items denoting severity and sudden crisis, emotion-expressing verbs, the use of specific names of individuals, institutions, and locations, intensifiers, numerical and quantitative terms, economic-related vocabulary, and cause-effect expressions; (2) Elaboration strategies, including descriptions of damage, spatial-temporal and geographical elaboration, and semantic elaboration portraying both positive and negative meanings; (3) Pragmatics and discourse strategies, including policy criticism and interrogative challenges, amplification of community voices, narrative structuring, and the use of speech acts; and (4) Rhetorical strategies, such as metaphorical expressions, moral language, and the construction of “hero” images.
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