12 October 2015

Linguistic and visual analysis of a news story on the Liberal Party leadership challenge

On Tuesday, September 15, 2015, The Sydney Morning Herald published an article written by Mark Kenny, titled Turnbull calls for era of fresh vision with the sub-title Showdown: ‘It will be a thoroughly Liberal government’ (Kenny, 2015a; Appendix A), following the dramatic event happened on Monday, in which the federal government’s by then communication minister Malcolm Turnbull called for a special Liberal Party meeting to vote for a new party leader and prime minister for the nation. The equivalent online story on The Sydney Morning Herald’s website is titled Liberal leadership: Malcolm Turnbull defeats Tony Abbott to become PM (Kenny, 2015b).