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6. “We’re hearing from Reuters that…”: The Role of Around-the-Clock News Media in the Increased Use of the Present Progressive with Mental Process Type Verbs - Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Digital Age |
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Ben Clarke; University of Portsmouth; |
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Linguistics |
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progressive aspect; present tense; transitivity; mental process types; grammar; diachronic functional change; corpus linguistics |
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systemic functional linguistics |
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Abstract |
Several studies have reported the diachronically increased use of the present progressive in English over the last century (e.g. Mair & Hundt, 1995; Levin, 2013). Working in a systemic-functional tradition, Clarke (forthcoming) shows that this general trend is true too with a sub-class of verbs which are classified as ‘mental processes’ in the same paradigm’s description of transitivity (Halliday, 1967-8; 1994), verbs which traditionally do not associate with the present progressive (Palmer, 1965: 95-97; Leech, 2004: 25-27). Leech (2004: 26; 29-30) has shown that this construction can be motivated by a desire to mitigate interpersonal pressures (cf. Brown & Levinson, 1987). But Clarke (forthcoming) argues that some instances of its use are semantically motived by a desire to represent events under discussion as emphatically current in the here and now. In this paper, one potential contextual explanation for the trend in question is explored; namely, the advent of twenty-four hour news media, their effect on the production of news and the increased importance of ‘recency’ as a news value (Bell, 1991; Gatlung & Ruge, 1965). |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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15-Nov-2016 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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PDF |
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https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/26125 |
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10.1558/equinox.26125 |
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Equinox eBooks Publishing; Systemic Functional Linguistics in the Digital Age |
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English=en |
en |
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Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |