| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 426 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Pragmatics & beyond,
0922-842X ;
new ser. 60
|
|
Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 60.
0922-842X
|
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-417) and indexes. |
| Contents |
A Pragmatic Perspective on Press Releases -- Institutional discourse, professional discourse, organizational discourse -- Towards a research method -- Activity of issuing press releases -- Language of press releases -- Newsmaking and news management -- Projected Discourse -- Models of receiver roles -- Functional analysis of receiver roles in press releases -- Projected discourse -- Self-Reference in Press Releases -- Institutional voice -- Data analysis -- Meeting the formal requirements of news reporting (preformulation[subscript i]) -- Content 'in sync' (preformulation[subscript ii]) -- Displaced discourse -- Co-operation and beyond -- Self-Quotation in Press Releases -- Quotations in press releases -- Self-quotation -- Constructed quotations -- (P)reformulation -- View from Bakhtin -- Functions of Self-Quotation in Press Releases -- Point of view operation -- Dramatic function -- Distancing function -- Reliability function -- Attitude function -- Explicit Semi-Performatives in Press Releases -- Explicit semi-performatives in press releases -- Preformulation[subscript i] -- Preformulation[subscript ii] -- Self-quotes and performatives -- A Case Study of the Valdez Corpus -- Exxon's Valdez news -- General structure -- Presupposition manipulations -- Self-reference -- Self-quotation -- Explicit semi-performatives -- Perspective: asymmetries in the news -- Interpretation and pre-interpretation. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Press releases.
|
|
Press releases. |
|
Metalanguage.
|
|
Metalanguage. |
|
Pragmatics.
|
|
Pragmatics. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
|
| Other Form: |
Print version: Jacobs, Geert. Preformulating the news. Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©1999 155619823X (DLC) 99022395 (OCoLC)40925956 |
| ISBN |
9789027283870 (electronic book) |
|
9027283877 (electronic book) |
|
155619823X |
|
9781556198236 |
|
902725074X |
|
9789027250742 |
|
