モータースポーツ記事におけるテキスト展開分析

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This paper attempts to clarify the textual development pattern in motorsport news articles. The study focuses on twelve news articles of Formula One, and describes what information is packed into the text. The thematic analysis (Halliday 1985) is applied to the data, then the thematic flow structure is examined. The analysis is twofold : the headline and the body. The analysis of headlines indicates the headline consistently conveys the fastest driver's name while the headline constructing pattern depends on choices of transitivity system. The analysis of the body suggests that there are four patterns of thematic flow and that the patterns reflect the textual developing patterns. The body articles usually contain the following information : the fastest driver's name, his time and speed and other drivers' results. Only if an accident occurs, the text topicalizes the driver involved in the accident and foregrounds the details of the accident.