title: The credibility of news media text: The experience of macrostructural analysis
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metadata.value: Negryshev, Andrey A.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2021-04-21T08:57:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2021-04-21T08:57:27Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2021-03
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Negryshev, A. A. (2021). The credibility of news media text: The experience of macrostructural analysis. Media Linguistics, 8 (1), 4–22.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu22.2020.401
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/28117
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The problem of textual credibility is considered in line with the theory of reference from the
  standpoint of a text’s grammar. The referential semantics of a text is determined by the type of
  discourse in which the text is generated. Subsequently, the criteria for credibility are discursively
  conditioned. The article reveals the referential aspects of news media text as a “product”
  of news discourse with its accuracy and objectivity requirements to factually ascertain a message. To describe these characteristics, the concept of referential density of the text is introduced,
  which is revealed through macrostructural text analysis. The basic definitions of this
  analysis are provided, its methodology is described and its testing is carried out to explicate
  the degree of reference density of the text. The key terms of macrostructural analysis are the
  macro-textual position and the ways of filling it. The main macro-textual positions of the news
  media text are headline ↔ text, compositional-factual, compositional-logical, compositional-syntagmatic
  relations and stylistic perspective. The different ways of filling these positions
  reveal different degrees of factuality/interpretability, which can be located on the reference
  scale in a certain sequence. Scales for each macro-textual position are combined into a referential
  matrix of the text, graduated in the direction of decreasing reference density/increasing
  interpretability. Another way to visualize the results of macro-textual analysis is to construct
  a radar diagram, on which the referential focus of the text is especially evident. Using the example
  of three news reports of the Russian press, the analysis of the filling of macro-textual
  positions, of which reveals varying degrees of reference density, three types of referential focus
  of news media text are demonstrated: concentrated, shifted and diffused. The distinguished
  types reflect the corresponding referential types of news media text, the referential density of
  which is a “linguistic dimension” of its credibility.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: ru
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Media Linguistics;Volume 8; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: credibility of media text
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: news media text
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: macrostructural analysis of text
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: text reference
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: referential density of text
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The credibility of news media text: The experience of macrostructural analysis
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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