Towards a linguistics of news production

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1843-1852

  Catenaccio, Paola ^a   Cotter, Colleen ^b   De Smedt, Mark ^c   Garzone, Giuliana ^a   Jacobs, Geert ^c   Macgilchrist, Felicitas ^d   Lams, Lutgard ^e   Perrin, Daniel ^f   Richardson, John E ^g   Van Hout, Tom ^h,j   Van Praet, Ellen ⁱ  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d Hamburg University's Asia Africa Institute   (Germany)

^e HOGESCHOOL UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^f ZURICH UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Switzerland)

^g NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^h LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY COLLEGE GHENT   (Belgium)

^j UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

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Author keywords

Discourse studies; Journalism; Linguistic ethnography; Media linguistics; News production

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952534754     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pragma.2010.09.022     Document Type: Article

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