Towards a pragma-linguistic framework for the study of sensationalism in news headlines

Discourse and Communication

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 173-197

  Molek Kozakowska, Katarzyna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OPOLE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Attention; critical discourse analysis; Daily Mail; headlines; news discourse; newsworthiness; popular journalism; pragma linguistics; sensationalism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876545243     PISSN: 17504813     EISSN: 17504821     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1750481312471668     Document Type: Article

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