A Corpus-Based Study of Lexico-Syntactic Features in Egyptian and Ethiopian English Newspaper Discourse over the GERD | ||
| Egyptian Journal of Linguistics and Translation | ||
| Article 4, Volume 8, Issue 1, July 2022, Pages 100-152 PDF (611.97 K) | ||
| Document Type: Research in linguistic and literary studies | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/ejlt.2022.162706.1012 | ||
| Author | ||
| Fakhry Muhammad Elieba* | ||
| English language Department/ Gulf Colleges/ KSA/Hafr El-Batin | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of lexico-syntactic features in the Egyptian and Ethiopian English newspaper discourse from 2011 to 2021. To emphasize the frame of this study, a comparative corpus-based approach is adopted, relating the Egyptian newspapers to the Ethiopian newspapers’ lexico-syntactic features. A key contribution of this study is, first, to analyze and compare quantitatively and qualitatively the different selected lexico-syntactic features, including content words, sentence types, and lexical verb frequency, as well as vocabulary size (type/token ratio), nominalizations, keyword analysis, and complement clauses. Second, quantification of the variables which most clearly distinguishes between influence readers’ perceptions of the two readership groups via standardized discriminant function coefficients. The perception and interpretation of GERD events are heavily influenced by the relative importance of requirements, principles, and expectations that are covered by the news’ articles in Egypt and Ethiopia. As a result of this study, the distributional categories of these features can be identified; these include: a. significant frequency of occurrences of lexico-syntactic features used by Egyptian and Ethiopian news article writers and how they can be explained; b. an analysis of the sentence types and their nature as used by the writers in news articles and what effects this has on the reader's perceptions; and c. evaluating the effects of context-dependent features on readers' perceptions and events. The findings of the corpus reveal some important differences between the Egyptian and Ethiopian news reports on the issue of the GERD | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Lexico; Syntactic Features; Type; Token Ratio; Nominalization | ||
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