Identifying the participants: reference in television news (original) (raw)

Visual Communication, 2016

Abstract

This article presents a generalized model of reference relations in the discourse of television news based on Montgomery’s principles of intelligibility, Halliday and Hasan’s reference cohesion, Martin’s identification system, Tseng’s cohesive reference and some intersemiotic models. Reference in television news involves reference patterns from the verbal track (verbal reference), the visual track (visual reference) and across the two tracks (visual–verbal reference). Based on the categorization of verbal reference, this study classifies visual reference as personals (such as visual reappearance), demonstratives (such as proximity and direction) and comparatives (such as similarity and difference). Reference across visual and verbal tracks includes three general types of visual–verbal reference, i.e. complementary, visual-as-bridge and parallel, among others. Through these patterns of reference and their reference chains, participants in television news can be tracked and identified...

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