The notion of objectivity and subjectivity in hard news

 

 The notion of objectivity and subjectivity in hard news has been studied in the context of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) and Appraisal Theory. According to SFL, the notion of objectivity is explicated through a configuration known as the ‘reporter voice’, which is a configuration through which we can identify rhetorical markers by which a journalist implicitly or explicitly selects linguistic resources in order to win an audience over to his/her point of view¹. The Appraisal Framework, on the other hand, is a framework that provides a way of analyzing the evaluative language used in texts. It is used to identify the ways in which writers and speakers express their attitudes, judgments, and emotions².

In summary, the Appraisal Framework and the Reporter Voice configuration are two frameworks that can be used to analyze the objectivity and subjectivity of hard news reports in SFL and Appraisal Theory.