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The Hard News Newspaper Report: The Beginning, Middle and End.

Autoři: Urbanová Zuzana

Rok: 2012

Druh publikace: ostatní - přednáška nebo poster

Strana od-do: nestránkováno

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Jazyk	Název	Abstrakt	Klíčová slova
eng	The Hard News Newspaper Report: The Beginning, Middle and End.	The paper is concerned with the genre of newspaper reports. One of its typical features is the central role of the headline and lead, which are said to highlight a socially, politically, economically or otherwise significant event. As this can result in a non-chronological presentation of information and the possibility to reorder or remove sections of text without hampering its overall functionality , the generic structure of newspaper reports is frequently contrasted with the genre of narration with a beginning, middle and end. Though newspaper reports are generally said to lack the closing phase, some contain so-called ‘wrap-up’, i.e. a final section in the generic structure that provides a sense of closure (e.g. Iedema et al. 1994, White 1998). The aim of the presentation is to offer a tentative observation of to what extent newspaper reports rely on the closing stage and whether it is possible to identify any tendencies in the kind of closures provided. The presentation looks at the genre of newspaper report from the point of view of Systemic Functional Linguistics and interprets the presence or absence of wrap-ups in terms of the rhetoric functionality of the hard news report. The analysis is based on a corpus of newspaper reports excerpted from British broadsheets.	hard news report; narrative; orbital structure; wrap-up; heteroglossia