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Preformulating the News : an analysis of the metapragmatics of press releases.
Preformulating the News is a study of press releases and of how they anticipate the requirements of journalistic writing. Drawing from a large corpus (Dutch and English), it is argued that the genre's peculiar audience-directedness can be related to a number of metapragmatic textual features an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Amsterdam/Philadelphia :
John Benjamins Pub. Co.,
1999.
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| Colección: | Pragmatics and Beyond Ser. ;
no. 60. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Preformulating the News is a study of press releases and of how they anticipate the requirements of journalistic writing. Drawing from a large corpus (Dutch and English), it is argued that the genre's peculiar audience-directedness can be related to a number of metapragmatic textual features and that this sheds light on the asymmetries of what can be termed the 'newsmaking' and 'news management' processes. In the first chapter the study of press releases is put in the context of institutional discourse and the details of a linguistic pragmatic research method are proposed. Chapter 2 looks at th. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (444 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-417) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9789027283870 9027283877 128317474X 9781283174749 9789027250742 902725074X 9786613174741 6613174742 |