چکیده:
Institutional identity as a concept in CDA is a field of study that deals with the identities that individuals in institutions obtain, one that merits deep research attention. News interviews as institutional instances can be analyzed based on the impersonal structures because interviewees see themselves as part of the institution and they may not take responsibility when they encounter problematic topics. In this study, Benwell and Stokoe’s (2006) concepts of institutional identities and impersonal structures (i.e., existential processes, nominalizations, passivizations, and relational processes) and Halliday’s (2004) transitivity system were used. Results indicated that relational processes and nominalizations have the highest and the lowest frequencies in English news interviews and in Persian news interviews; relational processes and existential processes have the highest and lowest frequencies, respectively.
خلاصه ماشینی:
That is, research contains some empirical studies on the concepts of institutional identities and impersonal structures (existential processes, nominalizations, passivizations, and relational processes) in different institutional settings.
Within the theoretical frameworks of Benwell and Stokoe (2006) and Halliday and Matthiessen (2004), the objectives of the present study included (1) analyzing the frequencies of impersonal structures (existential processes, nominalizations, passivizations, and relational processes) in English and Persian news interviews as instances of institutions that imbed power connections within them and making the interviewees resort to impersonal structures while encountering problematics topics, (2) seeing whether the English and Persian politicians use impersonal structures in impersonalizing their responses identically or differently, and (3) analyzing nominalized structures and their congruent equivalences as acts of making the speech and writing impersonalized.
The significance of the present study may be magnified by a closer examination of impersonal structures in news interviews as instances of institutions and the relatively peculiar comparisons and contrasts of English and Persian.
1. Design of the Study The design of the present study was a qualitative research that employed naturally occurring data by using impersonal structures, that is, existential processes, nominalizations, passivizations, and relational processes as manifestations of institutional identities that each interviewee derives.
1. Discussion The first research question addressed the existential process as an element of impersonal structures in both the English and Persian news interviews.
Generally, it could be stated that, in the English news interviews, relational processes had the highest frequencies and nominalizations had the lowest frequencies among elements of impersonal structures as manifestations of institutional identities.