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:

1 online resource (444 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-417) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-283-17474-X

9786613174741

90-272-8387-7

OCLC:

735627884