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Author Fruttaldo, Antonio, author.

Title News discourse and digital currents : a corpus-based genre analysis of news tickers / by Antonio Fruttaldo.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

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Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
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Summary "In recent years, journalistic practices have undergone a radical change due to the increasing pressure of new digital media on the professional practice. The ever-growing development of new technologies and the ceaseless fluctuation of social practices have challenged some of the traditional genres found in these professional contexts.On the basis of these premises, this book investigates a particular genre found in the context of TV newscasts. The genre under investigation is that of news tickers (or crawlers), that is, the graphic elements that scroll at the bottom of the screen during newscasts. The book introduces readers to this under-researched genre through a year-long collection of the news tickers displayed on BBC World News. Thanks to a corpus-based genre analysis, the generic status of news tickers is better defined by highlighting the presence of given strategies of marketization. Additionally, this volume investigates if news tickers can be seen as a mixed (sub-)genre that interdiscursively combines traditional linguistic elements of headlines and lead paragraphs to achieve, from a (Critical) Genre Analysis point of view, a specific private intention in the cont-ext of the BBC"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Television broadcasting of news.
Television broadcasting of news.
Visual communication.
Visual communication.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9781443893404 (electronic book)
1443893404 (electronic book)
9781443882828