A szavak becsülete
The Honour of Words

Summary/Abstract: The topic of this study is related to a slice of the online press stylistic analysis, delimited by lexicology, semantics and stylistics. My aim is to investigate the relationship between word choice and word reporting in Transylvanian Hungarian online media news texts from the perspective of appropriateness. By using the structure in the title (“honesty of words”), referring to Karinthy’s pamphlet, I want to emphasize that I am attempting to map the cases of word report development (change, modification) that “damage” the credibility of words; that may be considered as rule-breaking because the deviation of the occasional meaning from the usual one does not result in a stylistic effect, but in an imprecise, confused or unintelligible linguistic expression.

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