Lead, headline, news abstract? – genre conventions of news sections on newspaper websites

• Authors: Anna Tereszkiewicz
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

Increasing popularity and dynamic expansion of online newspapers creates a need for an in-depth analysis of online press, genre and discourse properties of online news in particular. The aim of the following analysis is to investigate genre characteristics of a newly developed news structure – a news abstract. The analysis examines the basic conventions concerning the purpose, form and content of these text types. The study encompasses news abstracts published on the websites of leading British, German and Polish newspapers. The inclusion of websites of culturally distinct newspapers was designed to evaluate the degree of universality and internationalization of the structure.

Keywords

PL

news, news genres, news discourse, online newspapers

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 129
• Issue: 3

Dates

online

2015-03-05

Contributors

author

Anna Tereszkiewicz