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The Quality Classification of International News Argumentative Forms

Z. Zhang

University of Southern California, Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism, los angeles, USA

In an increasingly globalized world filled with conflicts and crises, the role that international news plays became more important given the emergence

of an interdependent and globalized economy that the media serve as the main conduit for discussions about global issues in front of international audi‑

ences (Willnat & Luo, 2011). Scholarly studies not only analyzed the constitutive power of persuasive languages and communicative interaction used by dif‑

ferent arguers (governments or institutions) in attempt to persuade their antagonist to accept certain claims (van Eemeren & Grootendorst, 2003), but also

suggested that messages delivered by these arguers through media are no longer just speaking to their own domestic audiences, but also engaging global

stake holders (Riley & Hollihan, 2012). The quality of storytelling in news reports has been discussed under the framework of media argumentation on

different text-structures and rhetorical properties (Glasser & Ettema, 1994; Van Dijk, 1988; White, 1998, 2005; Hunter, 2001; Waugh, 2005; Zlatkova, 2012),

however, much less work had been done to develop theories about the quality of international news coverage under the media argumentation framework,

especially from a cross-national comparative perspective. By merging theories of media argumentation, rhetorical criticism and cross-national comparative

perspective on global journalism (Terhi & Oliver, 2008), this paper is targeted to define the quality classification of international news coverage and to gen‑

eralize different criteria on argument forms, narrative paradigms and logic relationship that reflected in international news coverage for a joint of empirical

and critical analysis within and beyond the comparative framework. The findings will also echo the globalization process of news-making nowadays that

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