Any port in a storm: A systemic functional analysis of linguistic choices of representation in news texts.

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This Master's Thesis aims to gain insight into how linguistic choices shape the representation of information in news stories. Because they involve decision by definition, choices have an effect on the news angles and consequentially on the content and the message conveyed in an article. Specific structures, such as passive sentences, are not only determined by simple stylistic preference, but are also the fruit of linguistic choices. The choice of such constructions in place of factually equivalent or similar ones, gives a sentence a particular direction and indicates a linguistic strategy in the (re)presentation of the facts and the speaker's attitude. 
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\nA study on an integral aspect of language use such as linguistic choices applied to news stories is of particular interest because of the essential role language plays in media and communication in general. More specifically, the present thesis is situated in the particular context of foreign news reporting, which involve

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