Topic Models to Analyze Disaster-Related Newspaper Articles: Focusing on COVID-19

Major media outlets have run many articles on the COVID-19 pandemic.Since the public suffers cognitive and emotional effects related to COVID-19 from such reports,we analyzed and reviewed the topics of news reports.We searched newspaper articles with the term‘COVID-19’term in four Korean daily newspapers from January 20,2020,when thefirst patient in Korea was found,to June 15,2020.Topic modeling analysis was conducted through text mining using R.Five themes were found:“Changes in people’s everyday life,”“Socio-economic shock,”“Trends in infection,”“Role of the government and business,”and“Increased psychological anxiety,”which all showed sharp increases in articles from mid-February to early March and then decreased.Despite the increased psychological anxiety people suffered from the COVID-19 pandemic,this topic showed the fewest articles.“Changes in people’s everyday life”showed the most,focusing attention on stimulating lifestyle articles of general interest.Since the COVID-19 pandemic can lead to mental health problems due to severe changes and isolation in everyday life,a comprehensive response to the news focusing on the impact on the mental health of the population around the world should be made.

The System of Reference and Lexical Cohesion in Newspaper-An Example of Analyzing "Beijing and Shanghai in Race to Attract Top Foreign Talents"

Discourse analysis is gaining its prominence in teaching reading. The paper presents an example of analyzing the system of reference and lexical cohesion of a news report. It demonstrates how to involve discourse analysis into the teaching of newspaper reading in order to make students get a clear framework of reference and lexical cohesion in a functional-grammar-conscious manner.

Newspaper Reading and English Teaching

Reading is not only the most effective way to get the knowledge of the language but also the only way to improve the language skills of English learners.However,the vast majority of students'reading ability are far apart from the curriculum standards in reality.Reading English newspaper helps to mobilize the enthusiasm of students'reading,and improve their reading ability.It forms a bridge between learning and real life.It extends the English reading from the teaching materials and guides students to a lot of extracurricular reading,creating a new reading space for students.

Analysis of Ambiguity in Newspaper Headlines from a Cognitive Perspective

Ambiguity in newspaper headlines have been studied by many people, which mostly focuses upon the traditional linguistics perspective: lexical, grammatical and syntactical. In this paper, the author intends to study the ambiguity in newspaper headlines from the cognitive perspective in order to find how people perceive the ambiguous headlines. To support the analysis, many examples of ambiguous headlines are collected to investigate into way people perceive them. Finally, the author concluded that in the cognitive perspective, people are prone to accept one of the two or more interpretations about the ambiguous headlines according to the following factors: their back ground knowledge, the common sense, the social-cultural environment as well as their personal altitudes, which are drawn upon from the image schema theory.

An Automatic Method to Identify Citations to Journals in News Stories: A Case Study of UK Newspapers Citing Web of Science Journals

Purpose: Communicating scientific results to the public is essential to inspire future researchers and ensure that discoveries are exploited. News stories about research are a key communication pathway for this and have been manually monitored to assess the extent of press coverage of scholarship.Design/methodology/Approach: To make larger scale studies practical, this paper introduces an automatic method to extract citations from newspaper stories to large sets of academic journals. Curated ProQuest queries were used to search for citations to 9,639 Science and3,412 Social Science Web of Science(WoS) journals from eight UK daily newspapers during2006–2015. False matches were automatically filtered out by a new program, with 94% of the remaining stories meaningfully citing research.Findings: Most Science(95%) and Social Science(94%) journals were never cited by these newspapers. Half of the cited Science journals covered medical or health-related topics,whereas 43% of the Social Sciences journals were related to psychiatry or psychology. From the citing news stories, 60% described research extensively and 53% used multiple sources,but few commented on research quality.Research Limitations: The method has only been tested in English and from the ProQuest Newspapers database.Practical implications: Others can use the new method to systematically harvest press coverage of research.Originality/value: An automatic method was introduced and tested to extract citations from newspaper stories to large sets of academic journals.

On the Hong Kong Newspaper's Role in the Democratic Revolution

Since the Cession of Hong Kong for the British since the news of speech terms is strictly limited, long-term Hong Kong residents can not participate in local politics. But to allow discussion of political affairs in China outside Hong Kong. Thus, the various historical periods in the future, the progressive intellectuals to Hong Kong newspaper, publicity revolution, the process of democratic revolution in China, plays a very important role.

Implications of NIE Project to Development of Newspapers about Agriculture,Countryside and Farmers

Through analyzing current situations of newspapers about agriculture,countryside and farmers and problems impairing development of these newspapers,this paper presents constructive recommendations for combination with NIE project at operational level.In China,NIE project should not copy foreign experience,but should proceed from rural realities,expend its intension and enrich its extension,and extend coverage of newspaper to all levels in rural areas.In addition,it is recommended to explore new approaches and find a new development road of newspapers about agriculture,countryside and farmers through transforming the publishing mode.

Suicide in Nigeria:observations from the content analysis of newspapers

Background Suicide is a global public health problem and Nigeria is one of the epicentres of suicide in the world.However,there is a dearth of research exploring the epidemiological aspects of suicide in Nigeria.Aim To examine the demographic information and precipitating events for suicides in Nigeria by analysing the contents of newspaper reports of suicide.Methods We searched,collected,and analysed published news reports about suicide from 10 English newspapers in Nigeria.A total of 350 suicide reports were assessed between January 2010 and December 2019 after screening and sorting.Results The mean(SD)age of the reported cases was 36.33(15.48)years.Majority of the reported cases were male(80.6%),married(51.8%),students(33.6%),living in a semi-urban area(40.3%)and among the age group of 25-34(25.3%).Hanging(48.6%)and poisoning(32.2%)were the most commonly reported methods of suicide.Financial constraints and marital conflicts were most commonly assumed precipitating factors.Conclusion This study suggests that being male,married,or living in semi-urban areas are associated with suicide in Nigeria.Further community-based studies are warranted to generalise the findings and adopt appropriate preventive strategies.

新世纪英语Newspaper(写作练习拓展课)

教学设计思路 教材分析 这堂课是新世纪英语高一下半学期第九课“Newspapers”的拓展课，也是我所设计的有关大众传媒系列的第一章——报纸。课文的主题“报纸”原本是一个较严肃和沉闷的内容，而段落写作训练如设计不当也容易让教学索然无味，引起学生的反感。所以，我决定把报纸的概念形象地在课堂中呈现。学生通过图片展示、报刊阅读、复习报纸板块的构成，自己总结新闻的六大要燕通过亲自参演新闻和记录重要信息，再次巩固了新闻要素并加以实际应用。

Impact of Gaokao on education at the societal level:Evidence from newspaper data

过去三十年间,考试影响已经被认为是考试效度验证中后果方面的重要证据,在语言测评领域引起了越来越多的关注。此方面现有研究多关注于测试对课堂内教学的影响(通常称之为"反拨效应"),而对测试在课堂之外的个体、政策及实践等社会层面的影响研究甚少。为此,本文研究了2011年至2017年间两种国家级报纸的数据,以此分析高考对于中国教育社会层面的影响。文献分析的结果显示了高考在诸多方面的巨大影响,包括考试内容、施考、利益相关方承受的压力、学校教学实践、教育政策等方面,特别是举国瞩目的现行高考改革。我们的分析显示考试内容设计需更多关注农村考生群体,考试需系统地提供更具包容性的施考程序,以及高考改革的成功需有课程及教法的配套改革支持。

Opportunities and Threats for Chinese Newspaper Media in the Omnimedia Era

Chinese Newspaper Media in the Omnimedia Era are faced with opportunities and threats brought by media ecological reconstruction.However.Newspaper media still have the advantages of circulation and readership.Through combing the basic situation and the main advantage of newspaper media development,this paper summarizes communication practice and future development of newspaper media.It is found that newspaper media should build a series of self-controlled new media platforms and integrate superiorities.What’s more,based on newspaper-oriented,newspaper media should strengthen the core feature of media and maintain the influence and communication value.

The Historical Value of Newspaper Directory of China

As a prominent journalist and entrepreneur living in Shanghai from 1911 to 1937,the“China Hand”Carl Crow(1884-1945)wrote a lot of works on Chinese newspapers,business,religion and culture.His advertising agency Carl Crow,Inc.published four editions of Newspaper Directory of China in the year of 1921,1931,1932 and 1935 respectively,and the most popular was the edition of 1935,which had a positive impact on the commercialization and development of the China’s newspaper industry.

Opportunities and Challenges:Chinese Newspapers in Transition

Chinese newspaper industry has entered into a new historical period;the prospect of newspaper is becoming an important topic of academic and industrial.Facing the media ecological reconstruction brought by media convergence,mobile circumstance,and internet plus,the norm of newspaper media in the past has been broken,facing new adjustment.Newspaper explored with hard since it confronted both opportunities and challenges.This article summarizes the basic situation and main advantages of newspaper media development.By analyzing newspaper transformation practice,this paper tries to discuss the future direction and what newspaper media can achieve in view of the current main difficulties.The analysis of the essence and effect of newspaper transformation,as well as the rationalization proposals,will be beneficial for newspaper media to recognize the situation,find the correct position,and create expression,so as to meet both opportunities and challenges.

The Problems and Strategies of English Newspaper Teaching

English newspaper is an easily accessible and important source for Chinese English learners.Reading newspapers may not only broaden learners’socio-cultural background knowledge but also enhance their overall English competence and performance.This paper attempts to state the use of English newspapers in the class.It firstly explores the importance of English newspapers,and then based on the survey,raises the major problems in the newspaper class in middle schools,and comes up with the solutions and ideal procedures of the teaching of newspapers.

A Study of Grammatical Metaphor of English Newspaper

From the perspective of functional linguistics, English newspaper contains a lot of grammatical metaphor phenomenon which is one of the significant stylistic features. And interpreting the grammatical metaphor of English newspaper can help us deepen the understanding of a news article. Based on the articles from BBC,China Daily and the New York Times, this paper analysis the grammatical metaphor of English newspaper from the perspectives of functional grammar.

Interactivity Features of Online Newspapers:Use and Effect on Gratification Among Zambian Readers

Interactivity in online newspapers is the focus of this chapter in eliciting readers’evaluation of Zambian online newspapers.This aspect of the study investigates and characterises the motivations(gratification sought)for use of interactivity features(“process motivation”)and how widely they are used.It also attempts to ascertain the gratification obtained from their use among readers.The probable relationships between use of the interactivity features(“audience interactivity”)and gratification obtained from them(“process gratification”)and the impact of the perceived credibility of the online newspapers on gratification are also examined.Past studies present mixed results on use of interactivity and gratification obtained from it.This study finds that use of interactivity in Zambian online newspapers is at a low level,although among the three broad categorisations of features of online newspapers,interactivity attracts greater use than hyper-textuality and multi-mediality.Human interactivity features-“knowing what others think about an issue”,“chat on the Facebook page of the newspaper”,“ability to navigate on the Facebook page of the newspaper”,and“posting own comments on stories”-are the main motivations for use of online newspapers,the most frequently used,and the most gratifying to the readers.While readers express an interest in interacting with other readers via online newspapers,they seem less interested in posting their own stories as“citizen journalists”and linking up with the publishers and editors.This finding challenges the notion that all new media are catalysts of participatory and cyclic communication.

An Evaluation of Newspaper Reading Course for Non-English Majors in Xi'an Jiaotong University

Research on Newspaper Reading in China has not reached its prime and the study on this course evaluation is still in itsinfant stage.Most of the previous studies confined themselves to teaching methodology and to how to use English newspaper moreeffectively to improve students’reading abilities.In order to make a detailed evaluation,that is,to check which aspect of the read-ing abilities was actually improved the most after the students finished the course and which the least.Through a reading test andanalyzed data performed by SPSS,it gives a thorough evaluation towards student’s reading abilities.

Media Response to Health Emergencies:An Analysis of International Newspapers Coverage of Early Days of COVID-19 Breakout in China

This study investigated the dominant perception triggered among the foreign residents in China by international newspapers’coverage of early months of COVID-19 outbreak in China.In total,12 leading newspapers from USA,UK,Malaysia,Nigeria,Australia,and Tanzania,with two selected from each country;and 10 samples are taken from each newspaper,totalling 120 samples.Two focus groups of seven members each were created and each of the groups separately discussed the samples listing their perception of the newspapers’articles.A control group of 13 participants was also created.Also,the views of 247 foreigners resident in China during the outbreak were sampled.Results from the study showed that in the early months of COVID-19 newspapers from USA,UK,and Australia sensationalized most of their news while some of their reports showed some political slant.However,most news reports from Nigeria,Tanzania,and Malaysia were less sensational.The results from the study and control groups were also backed by the results from the survey sample where most of the respondents said the news reports created fear and panic among them while containing less educative information.This study recommends prioritization of media social responsibility in the coverage of health emergencies.