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Persuasion In The Mirror Newspaper: A Linguistic Approach To Vuwani Demarcation Discourses
ISSN: 2617 - 0299
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Persuasion In The Mirror Newspaper: A Linguistic Approach To Vuwani Demarcation Discourses
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ICC-0902
Publisher: International Journal Of Linguistics, Literature And Trans..
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IAA.ZONE/261741290299
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Abstract
This paper is extracted from a study about persuasion in Vuwani demarcation discourses concerning series of articles released in the “Mirror†newspaper within a period of three years ranging from 2015 to 2017. The purpose of this paper was to explore how communicators within a media text deploy linguistic elements in their verbal and non-verbal messages to persuade targets to comply with their desired goals since message production is a result of a goaldriven process and communication is strategic and purposive to gain compliance. The objectives of this paper were to examine specific goals exhibited in messages constructed by communicators who were involved in the Vuwani demarcation discourses and to flag out linguistic strategies and tactics used by communicators to gain compliance. This paper reviews literature pertaining to communication, compliance gaining, persuasion, message production and language usage. Qualitative researc...
