Lesson 4 Flashcards
What is the emotive function?
Is related to the sender, who wants to express emotions.
What is the conative or directive function?
Is addressee-related: it relates to attempt to influence others in order to achieve some goal, typically realized by orders and requests.
What is the meta-communicative or meta-lingual function?
Is related to the code used.
What is the aesthetic or poetic function?
It can be defined as the use of language for language’s sake.
What is the informational or referential function?
It derives from the context or subject matter communication and is concerned with information transfer.
What is the phatic function?
Language is used to keep social relationships in good repair by ensuring that people keep talking to each other, as in small talk.
Main features of language in newspapers:
-it provides what’s new (opinions, facts)
-it covers the light and the shade (serious topics and less serious)
-it enhances every part of people’s lives
-it builds platforms and contexts in which people know they can trust what they are reading
-it educates, entertains, informs and inspire
What kind of newspapers can you find?
-news reports: a factual account of events recently occurred.
-editorial: lengthy opinion piece, newspaper’s view usually by the editor.
-other genres: letters, reviews, personal and commercio al advertisements, obituaries.
What are the newspaper’s main elements?
Headline, attribution, lead, the main body of the report itself, the headline.
What are the main features of the headline?
It attracts the reader’s attention, it summarizes the topic of the story, it suggests the tone, evaluation and slant on the story.
What are the main features of leads and news stories?
The lead is the first paragraph of the article and offers a summary of the story, it must be short and catchy. Emotive and evaluative vocabulary, selected details are included. 5ws: who, when, where, what, why and one h: how.
What are the main features of the presentation of speech in news reports?
Reporters seldom present in the event; they choose which voices to represent. News is what people say rather than what people do.
