Establishing Sharedness Through Lexis. An Analysis of Linguistic Choice and the Reader/Writer Relationship in Economic Journalism

• Authors: Robin Anderson

Abstracts

EN

This paper has as its starting point Fairclough’s observation that we can consider social life as diverse but interconnected networks of stabilized or institutionalised social activities which function by means of discourse (Fairclough 2003). Discourses include representations of how things are, have been, might, could or should be and all discourses are inherently positioned. By comparing the discourse features from the The Financial Times “Lex” column from the period 1996 to 2006, we will consider what discoursal choices have been employed in order to establish and maintain knowledge in this specialized discourse and consider whether the writer/reader relationship has changed.

Keywords

EN

genre; authorial identity; discourse community; discourse features; monologic communication

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk
• Journal: Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny
• Year: 2016
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 51-65

Dates

published

2016

Contributors

author

Robin Anderson

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2076258