News across Five Continents - Newspaper Language in the Context of Regional and Functional Variation - Jennifer Fest
3. The Role of News and its Language
News across Five Continents - Newspaper Language in the Context of Regional and Functional Variation - Jennifer Fest
Jennifer Fest [+]
RWTH Aachen University
Jennifer Fest graduated in linguistics from RWTH Aachen University.
Description
Chapter 3 reviews models of journalistic writing as well as linguistic research in the field. It discusses norms and guidelines that are in use among and taught to journalists and introduces the notion of press freedom as a potential influence on news language.