News Across Five Continents

Newspaper Language in the Context of Regional and Functional Variation

Jennifer Fest (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

194 Seiten

2023
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80050-289-5 (ISBN)

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This volume presents a thorough analysis of newspaper language from a regional and functional perspective. Based on a collection of 4,000 newspaper articles from five English-speaking regions and five different news domains, it discusses the benefit of register analysis in a systemic functional framework to comparing varieties and determining their developmental status. For this purpose, it starts with revisiting the states of the art in the fields of media studies, text analysis and variational studies, and then combines the three strands to result in an operationalization of register parameters and thus the basis for the analysis. The results are presented for each parameter as well as in terms of correlations, and are visualized frequently. After a discussion of the findings, the work considers their implications for the theory and method as well as the author's ideas for enhancements and future research.

Jennifer Fest graduated in linguistics from RWTH Aachen University.

Part I: Theory
1. Regional and Functional Variation
2. Varieties of English – Concepts and Previous Work
3. The Role of News and its Language
4. A Functional Approach to Variation in English

Part II: Methodology
5. Defining Register for a Quantitative Analysis
6. Corpus Design

Part III: Results and What to Learn from Them
7. Field of Discourse
8. Tenor of Discourse
9. Mode of Discourse
10. Regional and Functional Variation – What do we Learn?
11. Concluding Remarks

Appendix 1: Top 10 Keywords
Appendix 2: Top 20 Place References per Variety
Appendix 3: Ranges and Deviations

Erscheinungsdatum	13.03.2023
Reihe/Serie	Text and Social Context
Zusatzinfo	20 figures
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 234 mm
Gewicht	3116 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Journalistik
ISBN-10	1-80050-289-3 / 1800502893
ISBN-13	978-1-80050-289-5 / 9781800502895
Zustand	Neuware