Linguistic Devices Used in the News Bulletins of the Top Five News Radio Channels

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Department of Journalism, College of Mass Communication, University of Baghdad, 10001-Baghdad, Iraq

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Reporting on news radio channels takes on a unique tone. The News Bulletin frequently employs oblique language to build suspense and anticipation among its audience. Radio stations frequently employ idiomatic compounds and rhetorical expressions in order to make their news broadcasts more interesting and memorable. Since they provide a concise overview of the entire news story and are often the deciding factor for whether or not a listener continues listening. The goal of the current study is to examine the linguistic features of News Bulletin in a sample of news from the five most popular news radio stations: National Public Radio (NPR), BBC World Service, CNN Radio, Fox News Radio, and MSNBC. Fifty news broadcasts from these five news radio stations were collected for this study. All of them reported on the outbreak of war between Russia and Ukraine. The use of an analytical strategy, specifically the Montgomery (2007) model, which offers a holistic view and gives equal weight to the linguistic, semantic, and discursive properties of the news bulletin, enabled the achievement of the research goal.  The data analysis revealed that full sentences as well as ellipses were the most utilized expressions in the news bulletins of the news radio channels. The qualitative research showed that the News Bulletin uses the 'tactical incompleteness strategy,' a helpful concept from Montgomery's model, in almost all of its semantic, linguistic, and discursive choices. 

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  • Receive Date: 24 July 2022
  • Accept Date: 15 August 2022

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