Comparative Rhetoric of the Discourse Structure of News Stories between News Articles Published in Thailand and in the U.S.A.

Abstract

This article presents the results of a study which was conducted to investigate the differences in discourse structure between English news stories published in Thailand and those published in the U.S.A. Three news articles from The Bangkok Post , The Nation, and The New York Times were analyzed. The news discourse structure model proposed by Bell (1996) was employed to conduct this analysis. The results of the study revealed that there are significant differences between news articles reported by different news agencies. The New York Times presents many more events than The Bangkok Post and The Nation when reporting the same story. In addition, source attribution and news actor are presented differently by each news agency.