Attitude and subjectivity in Italian and British hard-news reporting: The construction of a culture-specific 'reporter' voice

Discourse Studies

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 106-137

  Pounds, Gabrina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Appraisal'; Attitude; Discourse analysis; Impersonalization; Journalistic style; News

Indexed keywords

EID: 77649258028     PISSN: 14614456     EISSN: 14617080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1461445609346777     Document Type: Article

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