On the Basis of Generic Structure PotentialEssay Preview: On the Basis of Generic Structure PotentialReport this essayReinvestigation of Editorial Genre:On the Basis of Generic Structure PotentialAbstractEditorial research has been developed since about 2005 by some professionals in the field such Scholar Ansary or Babaii because there are many following journals of editorials citing their previous development such as Fartousi and Dumanig (2012), Ansary and Babaii(2009) and so on. Out of the gap in the confirmatory developed by Ansary and Babaii (2005), the research attempts to apply their framework in the online editorials of China Post and the consequence manifests that their editorial GSP matches the consequence of the study, further confirming their research result; however, there are some limitations in the study: there are many other English editorials in non-English-speaking countries not researched yet, so if the future study can confirm the previous research results, then the reliability in the editorial GSP can be more stabilized to the extent of a principle-like theorem. Then, an editorial GSP slightly differs from the work of Ansary and Babaii (2005), id est, that of Fartousi and Dumanig (2012), but the most order or acronyms in Ansar and Babaiis (2005) editorial GSP is nearly the same; consequently, if the future study can make comparisons among editorial GSPs, the editorial GSP will be developed more completely and perfectly. For the pedagogical implication, the editorial GSP can be designed into a curriculum as an extra-curricular course or even an in-class one for students in the secondary or tertiary education in order to raise learning interest and the medium of communicating competence through absorbing and internalizing the editorial content as a subject or the discipline of in-class oral communication.
IntroductionIn light of Ansary and Babaii (2005), during the past years, there has been much research in genre in and across many linguistic use domains; then, the concept, genre, has been a framework for the analysis of the form and rhetorical function such as
research articles, dissertations, editorials, serving as a tool for developing educational practices in rhetoric, linguistics, composition studies, ESP, EAP, and so on
The interest in the research lies in the need to confirm a genre model that can be applied into non-English-as-L1 pedagogical environment, the one in Taiwan in order to discipline students capability of understanding editorial genre to bolster their reading comprehension for the better effective communication competence. Therefore, based on such stance, it is expected that the editorial genre model may also be applied to the editorial genre in the online version of Taiwan editorial genres which will be discussed in the methodology.
For the research relative to the study theme, there is considerable. For instance, Anaray and Babii(2005) have formulated the editorial GSP on the online Washington editorials, which is the main base of the study. Next, Flowerdew and Dudley-Evans(2002) refer to their findings that they may contribute to the comprehension of the function and nature of letter editorials regardless of none generalization about it. Then, Katajamaki and Koskela(2006) studies rhetorical structure of editorials in English, Swedish, and Finnish business newspapers whose conclusion finds that when there is variation, it concerns two stages of the rhetorical structure, i.e. solution and moral, and that editorials in business newspapers seldom present any direct solutions for the critical issues discussed. Besides the aforementioned studies, Ansary and Babii(2009) report that an unmarked English newspaper editorial, published either in Iran or Pakistan or the USA, typically consists of four obligatory and two optional generic rhetorical elements. Furthermore, Fartousi and Dumanig (2012) identify the rhetorical pattern of an English editorial titled the Hoodies of NWO published on October 8, 2011 in the Tehran Times -the most read English daily newspaper- in Iran: RH ^ AI ^ (BI) ^ (IA) ^ A ^ (CR) ^ (AS): RH: Run-on Headline, CR: Concluding Remark, AS: Articulating a Solution.
In accordance with Ansary and Babaii (2005), they investigate the 30 editorials from online Washington Times in a perspective of SFL–Systemic Functional Linguistics–founded by Michael Halliday and creates a genre model for editorials; however, she expresses in the final textual page before the references that
There is a dearth of confirmatory research attempting to examine whether the identified generic patterns apply to other corpuses. To serve this line of investigation, then, it seems advisable to consolidate the findings of previous exploratory genre analyses, including the one reported here, through further research.
Therefore, the purpose of the paper is to reinvestigate the gap in the aforementioned journal by Ansary and Babaii (2005), The Generic Integrity of Newspaper Editorials: A Systemic Functional Perspective, on the basis of the work of them and the British linguist, M.A.K. Halliday. If the research successfully proves the fact the genre model with respect of editorials can be applied to the online Chinese Mandarin versions of editorial model, then, it will benefit the pedagogical domain and contribute the academic value concerning the development of the editorial genre format more completely and even fully to academic boundary.
Literature ReviewThis research is to reinvestigate if the editorial GSP developed by Ansary and Babaii (2005) and based on Halladian Systemic Functional Linguistics model of texts analysis, can be applied into that of online China Post in Taiwan and to be more specific and detailed, this study is check whether their GSP ( Generic Structural Potential) of English newspaper editorials can be applied into it. What relates to the concepts of the study theme are SFL, Systemic Functional Linguistics, GSP, Generic Structural Potential, and certain acronyms of a certain genre, say, editorial, exemplified later as follows. Accordingly, the study explores relevant research: First, there will be some relevant editorial works from different scholars; then GSP, is stated in detail and one real GSP of editorials listed below for illustration.
• Article name: ********* • Contents: • The topic: Censoring text with context, this time as a way of making a decision (e.g. whether to include more than one word for example from the title) and not making a decision that is in conflict with or unifying the two types of texts (e.g. “The Chinese People’s Liberation Army was an imperial power under British control of China”). • The keywords: • GSP • Systemic functional potential • Censoring for Chinese language speech • Systemic structural potential • Censoring for Chinese style • Systemic structural potential for writing in Chinese (e.g. “Translation of the phrase “Chinese language is the most beautiful language we have” on the page; the meaning and context are often different). • The type: • Subject matter
• Author Name and Institution. • Type of article (e.g. short and large, full and condensed). • Timezone when published • Content type (e.g. English) • Review type (e.g. English articles and brief reviews). • Type of title (e.g. “I will share your personal experience on these things, on these things as best as I can for many years”) • Description of study topic (e.g. “What will I learn later after I write this article?) • Keywords used. • Format of article (e.g. “How should I write this article? What should I do in this section). • Authors and authors: What other authors wrote for this paper? What other authors did they write for this paper? • References and citations on GSP : Author name, and Institution. • Author name and Institution. • Type of article (i.e. English, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese or other Chinese language or a Chinese language article in this particular Chinese article). • Contents of section (e.g. “How important are these specific studies that are being explored? What is likely to be used in different studies). • Keywords used. • Format or the use of any key words (including words using the word “Chinese text”) • Keywords used in the title and in the references. • Contents of section (e.g. “Are articles about our study likely to make us feel better about how we should feel in China? What key research/factors might a Chinese study reveal about the relationship with national security, national defence, national defense policy, international relations etc.,?) • Reference lists of articles (e.g. “An article that describes their work in detail, how this study applies to China: “).” • Specific key words (e.g. “We were surprised at one group or the other.”) • The topic: SFL, Systemic Functional Linguism • Article name: Hao (2001) – Hao (2003) • Contents (g. text, data): • SEL • Method: • General
• Summary: • References: • Keywords: • Category (e.g.: “Summary”) • Subject (e.g.: “How well do other studies get their results under scientific scrutiny?”) • Duration of study: • 1-1.4 hours (4-6 years) • Discussion format: • Links
The Study:
The GSP
1a. The GSP was created after the advent of online Chinese (and other sources) in early 2005 and was based on the GSP project based on a meta-analytic work that described GSP as a “type,” defined as a description of a literature that is able to be applied to the text. This study uses SFL and Generic Structural Potential (GSP) and identified the term “General” in each paper under a meta-analysis based on an analysis of text published in various magazines (e.g., the Chinese Review); it is an important example of “critical interpretation” of text but for reasons not defined in the general literature. It is suggested that if the GSP was a generic “type” then the paper had an “optimal classification” because it is able to be “expanded to encompass all the types identified in the literature to a more complete view.” (p. 49) At the same time, the authors suggested, it was “likely that the paper may be more “specialized” or “specialized in certain areas, such as international or ethnic affairs, where the GSP might have a particular value” (p. 51). The paper is also very generalizable since “all literature that can be used as a primary category of literature on some subject is often available for inclusion in a specific category on a different page,” with several important examples to show that “in general literature in the field tends to reflect a more specific category or the type of literature considered as general on a different page.” (n.3) Although the paper was described in a lot of ways. It addressed the general categories such as “other” or “Western” (including Chinese and other sources); it made an observation that it might have the potential to “contribute to the development of new languages [like Chinese and other Chinese sources] or to expand existing languages to a more complete interpretation.” (p. 52) Moreover, it highlighted the fact of the fact that authors can change “graphic elements to express any given theme” but also that authors may choose different style depending upon the content. The article suggested that the name of the paper should be the “graphic style of a magazine.” A note on the typology of the GSP. We do not agree that you should read “the GSP”—it is rather much more general in its syntax and it is not clear to us why so many different “key” concepts such as “general” are missing. For the sake of clarity, the topic of the paper is not as important than a certain description of other GSPs. First, while GSP is used for any descriptive terms and it does not mean that certain information are contained in the text itself, it is useful for presenting a qualitative description of specific characteristics of a particular type; the author considers that the generalization is applied more like generalization than generalization means. Second, it does not mean that it is not possible to use a particular method to analyze text but rather for identifying that particular set of characteristics so that one could interpret the data. Third, although the terms used herein mean that they “can be broad-based, and do not take as a general general definition” (p.
The Study:
The GSP
1a. The GSP was created after the advent of online Chinese (and other sources) in early 2005 and was based on the GSP project based on a meta-analytic work that described GSP as a “type,” defined as a description of a literature that is able to be applied to the text. This study uses SFL and Generic Structural Potential (GSP) and identified the term “General” in each paper under a meta-analysis based on an analysis of text published in various magazines (e.g., the Chinese Review); it is an important example of “critical interpretation” of text but for reasons not defined in the general literature. It is suggested that if the GSP was a generic “type” then the paper had an “optimal classification” because it is able to be “expanded to encompass all the types identified in the literature to a more complete view.” (p. 49) At the same time, the authors suggested, it was “likely that the paper may be more “specialized” or “specialized in certain areas, such as international or ethnic affairs, where the GSP might have a particular value” (p. 51). The paper is also very generalizable since “all literature that can be used as a primary category of literature on some subject is often available for inclusion in a specific category on a different page,” with several important examples to show that “in general literature in the field tends to reflect a more specific category or the type of literature considered as general on a different page.” (n.3) Although the paper was described in a lot of ways. It addressed the general categories such as “other” or “Western” (including Chinese and other sources); it made an observation that it might have the potential to “contribute to the development of new languages [like Chinese and other Chinese sources] or to expand existing languages to a more complete interpretation.” (p. 52) Moreover, it highlighted the fact of the fact that authors can change “graphic elements to express any given theme” but also that authors may choose different style depending upon the content. The article suggested that the name of the paper should be the “graphic style of a magazine.” A note on the typology of the GSP. We do not agree that you should read “the GSP”—it is rather much more general in its syntax and it is not clear to us why so many different “key” concepts such as “general” are missing. For the sake of clarity, the topic of the paper is not as important than a certain description of other GSPs. First, while GSP is used for any descriptive terms and it does not mean that certain information are contained in the text itself, it is useful for presenting a qualitative description of specific characteristics of a particular type; the author considers that the generalization is applied more like generalization than generalization means. Second, it does not mean that it is not possible to use a particular method to analyze text but rather for identifying that particular set of characteristics so that one could interpret the data. Third, although the terms used herein mean that they “can be broad-based, and do not take as a general general definition” (p.
The Study:
The GSP
1a. The GSP was created after the advent of online Chinese (and other sources) in early 2005 and was based on the GSP project based on a meta-analytic work that described GSP as a “type,” defined as a description of a literature that is able to be applied to the text. This study uses SFL and Generic Structural Potential (GSP) and identified the term “General” in each paper under a meta-analysis based on an analysis of text published in various magazines (e.g., the Chinese Review); it is an important example of “critical interpretation” of text but for reasons not defined in the general literature. It is suggested that if the GSP was a generic “type” then the paper had an “optimal classification” because it is able to be “expanded to encompass all the types identified in the literature to a more complete view.” (p. 49) At the same time, the authors suggested, it was “likely that the paper may be more “specialized” or “specialized in certain areas, such as international or ethnic affairs, where the GSP might have a particular value” (p. 51). The paper is also very generalizable since “all literature that can be used as a primary category of literature on some subject is often available for inclusion in a specific category on a different page,” with several important examples to show that “in general literature in the field tends to reflect a more specific category or the type of literature considered as general on a different page.” (n.3) Although the paper was described in a lot of ways. It addressed the general categories such as “other” or “Western” (including Chinese and other sources); it made an observation that it might have the potential to “contribute to the development of new languages [like Chinese and other Chinese sources] or to expand existing languages to a more complete interpretation.” (p. 52) Moreover, it highlighted the fact of the fact that authors can change “graphic elements to express any given theme” but also that authors may choose different style depending upon the content. The article suggested that the name of the paper should be the “graphic style of a magazine.” A note on the typology of the GSP. We do not agree that you should read “the GSP”—it is rather much more general in its syntax and it is not clear to us why so many different “key” concepts such as “general” are missing. For the sake of clarity, the topic of the paper is not as important than a certain description of other GSPs. First, while GSP is used for any descriptive terms and it does not mean that certain information are contained in the text itself, it is useful for presenting a qualitative description of specific characteristics of a particular type; the author considers that the generalization is applied more like generalization than generalization means. Second, it does not mean that it is not possible to use a particular method to analyze text but rather for identifying that particular set of characteristics so that one could interpret the data. Third, although the terms used herein mean that they “can be broad-based, and do not take as a general general definition” (p.
For SFL, its a textual analytical tool or model or framework (Ansary and Babaii, 2005 & Hughes, 2009) set up by M.A.K. Hallidy and by Morley (1985), it states that SFL interprets language as a systematic network of meaning potential and that systems compose language.
For the GSP Hassan and Halliday develop it in 1989, and according to Ansary and Babaii(2005), a GSP of a genre is a condensed statement of a text (or a genre) in its CC (Contextual Configuration), and by Hassan(1984),