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Lead, headline, news abstract? – genre conventions of news sections on newspaper websites

Publication date: 11.09.2012

Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2012, Volume 129, Issue 3, pp. 211 - 224

https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.12.014.0603

Authors

Anna Tereszkiewicz
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7553-0178 Orcid
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Lead, headline, news abstract? – genre conventions of news sections on newspaper websites

Abstract

Increasing popularity and dynamic expansion of online newspapers creates a need for an in-depth analysis of online press, genre and discourse properties of online news in particular. The aim of the following analysis is to investigate genre characteristics of a newly developed news structure – a news abstract. The analysis examines the basic conventions concerning the purpose, form and content of these text types. The study encompasses news abstracts published on the websites of leading British, German and Polish newspapers. The inclusion of websites of culturally distinct newspapers was designed to evaluate the degree of universality and internationalization of the structure.

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Information: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2012, Volume 129, Issue 3, pp. 211 - 224

Article type: Original article

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Lead, headline, news abstract? – genre conventions of news sections on newspaper websites

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Lead, headline, news abstract? – genre conventions of news sections on newspaper websites

Authors

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7553-0178

Anna Tereszkiewicz
Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7553-0178 Orcid
All publications →

Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Gołębia 24, 31-007 Kraków, Poland

Published at: 11.09.2012

Article status: Open

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