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International News Reporting: Metapragmatic Metaphors and the U-2

By Jef Verschueren

Book information

Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company
Year
1985
ISBN
9027225478, 9789027225474
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
10 MB (10313749 bytes)
Series
Pragmatics & Beyond
Pages
117\117
Time added
2015-01-15 18:42:30

Description

With reference to a brief description of inherent properties of the international news reporting process in a free press tradition, Verschueren criticizes their being neglected in linguistic approaches to the language of the media. In an attempt to illustrate the potential contribution of functional linguistic analyses to a better understanding of the printed media as a channel for international communication, he investigates the use of metapragmatic metaphors (in particular metaphorical verbs of speaking) in the reporting by The New York Times on the U-2 incident in May 1960. The framing of the incident as a communicative event is evaluated along the dimensions of factual truth, interpretational accuracy, and understanding.

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