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ENGAGEMENT FEATURES IN BUSINESS NEWSPAPERS CORPUS A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF BUSINESS NEWS AND BUSINESS ARTICLES

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2023(VIII-I).20      10.31703/gesr.2023(VIII-I).20      Published : Mar 2023

Engagement Features in Business Newspapers Corpus: A Comparative Study of Business News and Business Articles

Abstract

    The study explores the Pakistani business newspaper corpus for the presence of engagement features—one of the systems of interactional metadiscourse. Business corpus of 1 million words comprised Pakistani business news and business articles collected from the four well-reputed Pakistani English newspapers, i.e., The Daily Times, The Nation, The Business Recorder, and The Dawn. It was found that the writer presents his ideas and arguments and engages his/her reader by employing different engagement features Furthermore, in the corpus of business articles, the writers were found keener to be informative and engaging than they were for the corpus of business news. The results of the study can potentially help future researchers in understanding the use of Engagement markers in other business corpus texts. In addition, educationists and syllabus designers may use the findings of the study for developing better teaching materials.

    Interactional Metadiscourse, Engagement, Business Discourse

    (1) Hassan Moavia
    Department of English, School Education Department, Government of Punjab, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Moazzam Ali Malik
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (3) Humayun Manzoor
    PhD Research Scholar, Department of Language & Communication, University of Sultan Zainal Abidin, Malaysia.
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Cite this article

APA

    APA : Moavia, H., Malik, M. A., & Manzoor, H. (2023). Engagement Features in Business Newspapers Corpus: A Comparative Study of Business News and Business Articles. Global Educational Studies Review, VIII(I), 231-241. https://doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2023(VIII-I).20

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Moavia, Hassan, Moazzam Ali Malik, and Humayun Manzoor. 2023. "Engagement Features in Business Newspapers Corpus: A Comparative Study of Business News and Business Articles." Global Educational Studies Review, VIII (I): 231-241 doi: 10.31703/gesr.2023(VIII-I).20

HARVARD

    HARVARD : MOAVIA, H., MALIK, M. A. & MANZOOR, H. 2023. Engagement Features in Business Newspapers Corpus: A Comparative Study of Business News and Business Articles. Global Educational Studies Review, VIII, 231-241.

MHRA

    MHRA : Moavia, Hassan, Moazzam Ali Malik, and Humayun Manzoor. 2023. "Engagement Features in Business Newspapers Corpus: A Comparative Study of Business News and Business Articles." Global Educational Studies Review, VIII: 231-241

MLA

    MLA : Moavia, Hassan, Moazzam Ali Malik, and Humayun Manzoor. "Engagement Features in Business Newspapers Corpus: A Comparative Study of Business News and Business Articles." Global Educational Studies Review, VIII.I (2023): 231-241 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Moavia, Hassan, Malik, Moazzam Ali, and Manzoor, Humayun (2023), "Engagement Features in Business Newspapers Corpus: A Comparative Study of Business News and Business Articles", Global Educational Studies Review, VIII (I), 231-241

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Moavia, Hassan, Moazzam Ali Malik, and Humayun Manzoor. "Engagement Features in Business Newspapers Corpus: A Comparative Study of Business News and Business Articles." Global Educational Studies Review VIII, no. I (2023): 231-241. https://doi.org/10.31703/gesr.2023(VIII-I).20