CHARACTERISTICS OF JOURNALISTIC LANGUAGE IN BRITISH NEWSPAPERS
CHARACTERISTICS OF JOURNALISTIC LANGUAGE IN BRITISH NEWSPAPERS

Summary/Abstract: In the present paper we are going to discuss the most important characteristics of journalistic language, pointing out both the linguistic and the punctuation rules that have to be followed in newspaper reports, as well as the discourse patterns which have as main features the ability to simplify the information, the focus on details and accuracy, the objectivity and the clarity of the text. In order to study the journalistic language, we have chosen several reports published in the most representative British newspapers, using for our discourse analysis texts from different domains, such as politics and sports. We are going to demonstrate that, in spite of the different topics, the characteristics of journalistic language are present in all written discourses.

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