A Cognitive Theoretical Approach of Rhetorical News Analysis
Sami, I., Russell-Rose, T. ORCID: 0000-0003-4394-9876 & Soldatova, L. (2023). A Cognitive Theoretical Approach of Rhetorical News Analysis. In: CEUR Workshop Proceedings. Sixth Workshop on Narrative Extraction From Texts, 2 Apr 2023, Dublin, Ireland.
Abstract
The storytelling narrative is the key to conveying an author’s opinion and argument about a specific topic to intended readers. A good narrative not only conveys the underlying message but also leads readers to a better conceptual understanding of the discussed topic. Stories play a vital role in understanding through their chronological style of reporting. Similarly, to gain readers? attention from beginning to end, news agencies generally adopt an inverted pyramid structure where a story starts with stating the most important material. The facts of news are encapsulated in fve basic questions Who, Where, What, When and Why which are fundamental for any news readers’ understanding. Distributions of the categorical facts of the news correlate to the answers to What, When, Where and Who questions and the answer to Why is correlated to the authors’ argumentation and evidence. In this paper, we presented a theory of mapping 5Ws and Aristotle’s Rhetoric into the format of Joseph Campbell’s The Hero’s Journey as a structural story template to assist in automatic understanding of the structure of news and evaluated the approach via cognitive reading and writing user experiment tasks.
Publication Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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Additional Information: | © 2023 Copyright for this paper by its authors. Use permitted under Creative Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). |
Publisher Keywords: | Narrative Representation, Storytelling, Visualization |
Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) P Language and Literature |
Departments: | School of Science & Technology School of Science & Technology > Computer Science |
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