Lead, headline, news abstract? – genre conventions of news sections on newspaper websites

Increasing popularity and dynamic expansion of online newspapers creates a need for an in-depth analysis of online press, genre and discourse properties of online news in particular. The aim of the following analysis is to investigate genre characteristics of a newly developed news structure – a new...

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Published in:Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis no. 129; pp. 211 - 224
Main Author: Tereszkiewicz, Anna
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Kraków Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego 2012
Jagiellonian University Press
Jagiellonian University-Jagiellonian University Press
Subjects:
Content analysis
Conventions
Electronic newspapers
Electronic publishing
Genre
Globalization
Internet
Language and Literature Studies
News media
Popularity
Property
Websites
Europe
news
online newspapers
news discourse
news genres
ISSN:1897-1059, 2083-4624
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Summary:Increasing popularity and dynamic expansion of online newspapers creates a need for an in-depth analysis of online press, genre and discourse properties of online news in particular. The aim of the following analysis is to investigate genre characteristics of a newly developed news structure – a news abstract. The analysis examines the basic conventions concerning the purpose, form and content of these text types. The study encompasses news abstracts published on the websites of leading British, German and Polish newspapers. The inclusion of websites of culturally distinct newspapers was designed to evaluate the degree of universality and internationalization of the structure.
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ISSN:1897-1059
2083-4624