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Dayag  \nDe La Salle University  \nPhilippines  \nThis paper examines the discourse structure of newspaper editorials in Philippine English in terms of their macrostructure and their lexico-grammatical features. Data were taken from three leading English-language newspapers in the Philippines. Toulmin’s framework is used in analyzing the macrostructure of the editorials. The study posits that the discourse features of editorials manifest the interactive nature of these texts. Implications of the findings for second language teaching are also discussed.  \nKey Words: Philippine English, newspaper editorials, editorial discourse  \nEditorializing as a discursive practice has received some attention in the linguistic literature. One study that looked at newspaper editorials was Reynolds (1993), which investigated the speech acts performed in three languages, namely, American English, Egyptian Arabic, and Egyptian English. Using Searle’s (1979) Speech Act Theory, the study found pragmatic features unique to each language as indicated by the frequency of use in each language of representatives, declarations, commissives, expressives, and directives. In 1997, Dayag replicated the study in his attempt to characterize Philippine English (henceforth, PE) as one of the Englishes belonging to Braj Kachru’s (1985) Outer Circle, which groups varieties of English used in countries which were former colonies of Great Britain and the USA and where English is basically a second language. Among other things, findings of that study included the following:  \n(1) PE places greater emphasis on representatives to cite statistics and events or report direct and indirect quotations, and less on declaratives to make claims, take a stand, or pass judgment; (2) PE uses declaratives composed of attribution of quality using single-word adjectives or phrasal description,  \nDanilo T. Dayag, Associate Professor and Graduate Program Coordinator, Department of English and Applied Linguistics, De La Salle University, Manila, Philippines. Correspondence regarding this article may be sent to the Department of English and Applied Linguistics, De La Salle University, 2401 Taft Avenue, Manila 1004, Philippines. Electronic mail may be sent [to dayagd@dlsu.edu.ph](to dayagd@dlsu.edu.ph)  \nconclusions or generalizations, prediction, and attribution of certainty or possibility…(Dayag, 1997, p. 134) .  \nConnor (1996), in a survey of studies conducted on newspaper editorials, cites only two studies on this discourse type, confirming the dearth of studies along this line. These are Dantas-Whitney and Grabe (1989) and Tirkkonen-Conditand Lieflander-Koistinen (1989), both cross-cultural studies. Dantas-Whitney and Grabe (1989) was a study of twenty editorials in Portuguese and English. It found cross-cultural differences between the two languages in that English used amore formal and detached style than Portuguese. On the other hand, Tirkkonen-Condit and Lieflander-Koistinen’s study of Finnish, English and German editorials found that Finnish editorial texts did not always argue a point of view, but informed, and that “the German editorials placed the argument statement at the beginning of the editorial more often than the English newspaper did, whereas the Finnish editorials had no argument statement” (Connor, 1996, pp. 143-144) .  \nIn this paper, I shall describe the discourse structure of newspaper editorials in the Philippines where English is used as an L2 . In particular, I attempt to answer the following questions:  \n(1) How can the macrostructure of PE newspaper editorials be described?  \n(2) How can the discourse micro-structure of PE  \nEditorializing in L2  \nnewspaper editorials be characterized in terms of lexico-grammatical features or signals such as conditional and adversative clauses, rhetoric","cbCaik4GeHy779ZD","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaik4GeHy779ZD","pdf",122238,"English","# Editorializing in L2\n## Methodology\n## Corpus of Data\n## Segmenting Editorials as Written Text","[{\"question\":\"What is the main focus of the study?\",\"answer\":\"The study analyzes the discourse structure of Philippine English newspaper editorials, covering both macrostructure and lexico-grammatical features.\"},{\"question\":\"What framework is used to analyze the editorials’ macrostructure?\",\"answer\":\"Toulmin’s framework is used to analyze the macrostructure of the editorials.\"},{\"question\":\"How was the editorial corpus collected?\",\"answer\":\"The corpus includes thirty-five editorials from five newspapers gathered over a one-week period, from December 2 to 8, 2001.\"}]","Editorializing in L2 - The Case of Philippine English | PDF",1792073830,25]