Focus on form: Foregrounding devices in football reporting

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 219-242

  Chovanec, Jan ^a  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Foregrounding; Headlines; Infotainment; Media discourse; Multimodality; Poetic function

Indexed keywords

EID: 48449105511     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481308091908     Document Type: Article

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