Preformulating the news : an analysis of the metapragmatics of press releases / Geert Jacobs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacobs, Geert.

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 60.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 60

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Press releases.

Metalanguage.

Pragmatics.

Physical Description:

xviii, 426 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, [1999]

Contents:

Chapter 1 A Pragmatic Perspective on Press Releases

2. Institutional discourse, professional discourse, organizational discourse 1

3. Towards a research method 4

4. The activity of issuing press releases 15

5. The language of press releases 24

6. Newsmaking and news management 32

Chapter 2 Projected Discourse

2. Models of receiver roles 47

3. Functional analysis of receiver roles in press releases 54

4. Projected discourse 74

Chapter 3 Self-Reference in Press Releases

1. The institutional voice 84

2. Data analysis 91

3. Meeting the formal requirements of news reporting (preformulation[subscript i]) 109

4. Content 'in sync' (preformulation[subscript ii]) 122

5. Displaced discourse 125

6. Co-operation and beyond 126

Chapter 4 Self-Quotation in Press Releases

1. Quotations in press releases 140

2. Self-quotation 149

3. Constructed quotations 154

4. (P)reformulation 166

5. The view from Bakhtin 173

Chapter 5 The Functions of Self-Quotation in Press Releases

1. Point of view operation 183

2. The dramatic function 184

3. The distancing function 189

4. The reliability function 196

5. The attitude function 200

Chapter 6 Explicit Semi-Performatives in Press Releases

1. Explicit semi-performatives in press releases 245

2. Preformulation[subscript i] 251

3. Preformulation[subscript ii] 257

4. Self-quotes and performatives 277

Chapter 7 A Case Study of the Valdez Corpus

2. Exxon's Valdez news 281

3. General structure 284

4. Presupposition manipulations 287

5. Self-reference 289

6. Self-quotation 292

7. Explicit semi-performatives 301

3. Perspective: asymmetries in the news 306

4. Interpretation and pre-interpretation 312.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [388]-417) and indexes.

ISBN:

155619823X

902725074X

OCLC:

40925956