چکیده مقاله
The purpose of the study is to conduct a syntactic analysis of news discourse published online in four popular Khmer newspapers in Cambodia A sample of 60 articles on COVID 19 outbreaks published from 23 to 29 January 2020 were analysed qualitatively and quantitatively, and with the PAN Khmer Line Breaking Program used to separate Khmer words for word count the way English words are counted as Khmer writing conventions do not require a space in between words but phrases The researchers used descriptive and inferential statistics to calculate and compare average lengths of the articles, paragraphs, and sentences The study compared its results to subject specific academic discourse for Grade 12 and undergraduate studies, and found no statistically significant difference in average sentence lengths between academic texts and the target articles, with sentences of the newspaper articles averaging 32 25 words, compared to 34 3 for the academic texts Complex sentences were most commonly used, accounting for 44% of a total of 442 sentences in the study’s dataset Based on the findings, Khmer journalistic writers are recommended to reduce complexity of clauses and sentences in their written news pieces, observing the standard readability of under 20 words per sentence
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نویسندگان
Bunlot Khoy
Faculty of Social sciences and Humanities, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Faculty of Social sciences and Humanities, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia & Institute of Foreign Languages, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Sotheara Suon
Faculty of Social sciences and Humanities, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Faculty of Social sciences and Humanities, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia & Institute of Foreign Languages, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Bophan Khan
Faculty of Social sciences and Humanities, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia; Faculty of Social sciences and Humanities, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia & Institute of Foreign Languages, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
شیوه ارجاع
Khoy, Bunlot and Suon, Sotheara and Khan, Bophan,1400,A Syntactic Analysis of Cambodian News Discourse on COVID-19 Outbreaks: Sentence Lengths and Structures as Predictors of Readability,The Sixth International Conference on Languages, Linguistics, Translation and Literature (virtually),Ahvaz
ارائهشده در
مجموعه مقالات هفتمین کنفرانس بین المللی بررسی مسائل جاری زبان ها، زبان شناسی، ترجمه و ادبیات21 خرداد 1401 · اهواز