Revista Conrado (Nov 2021)
Exploring time and place in news discourse: a linguistic approach
Abstract
The main hypothesis in the paper is that not only tense/time nor space/place, but both time and place play equally crucial role in the process of meaning construction in news discourse. In this connection, the goal of the paper is to explore time and place in news discourse that have been extensively but mostly separately studied from different perspectives. News reflects real life events happened in the recent past, are happening now or will happen in the near or distant future in a specific place. So, both time and place matter in news discourse and it is intriguing to study the linguistic representations of the correlation of time and place from a perspective of their multiple functions in this genre. The recent flood of emerging news in connection with the coronavirus pandemic makes this topic extremely relevant and original as this developing topic has very important two dimensions: time and place. That is why it is interesting to analyze how these two concepts are shaped in the vast amount of news discourses produced in the first months of 2020.
