00392nas a2200109 4500008004100000245007700041210006900118260003100187300001200218100001900230856003300249 2017 eng d00aRecounting the electoral violence of 2016’s Electioneering News events0 aRecounting the electoral violence of 2016 s Electioneering News aLondonbAfrica World Press a305-3351 aMugumya, Levis uhttp://llc.mak.ac.ug/node/5700332nas a2200085 4500008004100000245008400041210006900125100001900194856003300213 2016 eng d00aAnecdotal news reporting: Recounting electioneering events in Runyankore-Rukiga0 aAnecdotal news reporting Recounting electioneering events in Run1 aMugumya, Levis uhttp://llc.mak.ac.ug/node/7600367nas a2200085 4500008004100000245011900041210006900160100001900229856003300248 2016 eng d00aThe contribution of Runyankore-Rukiga to the print media: the rhetorical construction of a contemporary news story0 acontribution of RunyankoreRukiga to the print media the rhetoric1 aMugumya, Levis uhttp://llc.mak.ac.ug/node/7500369nas a2200085 4500008004100000245012100041210006900162100001900231856003300250 2016 eng d00aRecounting Electoral Violence and ‘Verbal Duels’: An Appraisal of the 2016 Electioneering news-reports in Uganda0 aRecounting Electoral Violence and Verbal Duels An Appraisal of t1 aMugumya, Levis uhttp://llc.mak.ac.ug/node/7400414nas a2200097 4500008004100000245011500041210006900156260003900225100001900264856003300283 2015 eng d00aPower struggle in East Africa: a cross-cultural analysis of electioneering and electoral violence news stories0 aPower struggle in East Africa a crosscultural analysis of electi aKampalabMakerere Universityc20151 aMugumya, Levis uhttp://llc.mak.ac.ug/node/7302345nas a2200109 4500008004100000245008900041210006900130520180000199100001901999700002102018856019602039 2015 eng d00aReporting land conflict in Uganda: appraising via metaphors, anecdotes, and proverbs0 aReporting land conflict in Uganda appraising via metaphors anecd3 a
News reporting studies have largely been confined to the Western cultures and languages, yet news reporting in other languages has proliferated throughout the world (Thomson et al. 2008; Thomson & White 2008). This article explores news reporting in Runyankore-Rukiga, an agglutinating Ugandan Bantu language, focusing on land conflict. Assuming the influential discourse-linguistic framework of Appraisal theory and genre theory (Thomson et al. 2008), the article investigates the linguistic expressions of evaluative language in Runyankore-Rukiga across government-oriented and private newspapers. It also examines the properties that constitute Runyankore-Rukiga hard news reports. Although the genre analysis reveals that the structure of Runyankore-Rukiga hard news reports resembles the satellite structure of the English hard news reports as proposed by White (1997), some differences are identified. Not only does the news report unfold in a chronological order, it exhibits a distinct discursive feature that is characterized by anecdotes, metaphors, grim humor, or proverbs in the lead paragraph. This type of introduction does not necessarily capture the gist of the entire report but rather seeks out the reader’s attention. The article further explicates the nature of lexicogrammatical properties of evaluative language that news writers invoke to express attitudes in the news events. The appraisal exploration also examines instances of graduation in which different figures of speech and non-core lexis are invoked to amplify attitudinal values. The article thus extends Appraisal theory analysis to one of only a few African languages examined within this framework, and contributes to the understanding of news reporting in these languages and cultures.
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