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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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Jacobs, Geert
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam/Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub. Co., 1999.
Colección:Pragmatics and Beyond Ser. ; no. 60.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • PREFORMULATING THE NEWS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Chapter 1 A Pragmatic Perspective on Press Releases; Chapter 2 Projected Discourse; Chapter 3 Self-Reference in Press Releases; Chapter 4 Self-Quotation in Press Releases; Chapter 5 The Functions of Self-Quotation in Press Releases; Chapter 6 Explicit Semi-Performatives in Press Releases; Chapter 7 A Case Study of the Valdez Corpus; Chapter 8 Conclusions and Perspective; Appendix: corpus; Notes; References; Author Index; Subject Index.