35.36, Books: News across Five Continents: Fest (2023)

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Subject: 35.36, Books: News across Five Continents: Fest (2023)

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Date: 29-Nov-2023
From: Janet Joyce [jjoyce at equinoxpub.com]
Subject: News across Five Continents: Fest (2023)


Title: News across Five Continents
Subtitle: Newspaper Language in the Context of Regional and Functional
Variation
Series Title: Text and Social Context
Publication Year: 2023
Publisher: Equinox Publishing Ltd
                http://www.equinoxpub.com/
Book URL: https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/news-across-five/

Author: Jennifer Fest
Abstract:

News across Five Continents 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, this volume considers their implications for the theory and
method as well as the author’s ideas for enhancements and future
research.

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics

Written In: English (eng)



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