A Morphological Analysis of Fag Packet Sums and a Certain Stoicism
A Morphological Analysis of Fag Packet Sums and a Certain Stoicism

Summary/Abstract: In order to assess the truthfulness of events as well as comments or information, journalists make use of various techniques employed to support the validity of their statements in the face of reality. The present paper attempts to prove that writers resort to several methods, among which, almost invariably, is the use of the involvement features specific to adverbs, especially epistemic, attitude, and style stance adverbs. A higher number as adverb occurrence is anticipated in newspaper articles meant to spectacularly or persuasively present information or events, as is the case of tabloids, whereas ‘highbrow’ broadsheets, which supposedly present information rather objectively, will exhibit a lower percentage of adverb employment.

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