<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> Linguistic exposures are image constructions and some of the most distinctive mechanisms in the discourse community of journalism.By exposing the journalistic writers add focus, detail and substantiation to their stories. Linguistic exposures are tools that evoke images in the readers’ minds and help establish and improve the basis of interest and understanding.We are combining linguistic and statistical methods to investigate exposures in the news of five Danish national papers in order to determine how widespread it is, and with what force and impact the techniques are used.Our study contributes to existing knowledge by focusing on form rather than content. We investigate the creative use of specific structural elements of the language as the prevailing contact establishing tools of journalistic discourse. Our data are based on news from Berlingske Tidende, B.T., Politiken, Ekstra Bladet and Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten.</abstract>

Linguistic exposures are image constructions and some of the most distinctive mechanisms in the discourse community of journalism.By exposing the journalistic writers add focus, detail and substantiation to their stories. Linguistic exposures are tools that evoke images in the readers’ minds and help establish and improve the basis of interest and understanding.We are combining linguistic and statistical methods to investigate exposures in the news of five Danish national papers in order to determine how widespread it is, and with what force and impact the techniques are used.Our study contributes to existing knowledge by focusing on form rather than content. We investigate the creative use of specific structural elements of the language as the prevailing contact establishing tools of journalistic discourse. Our data are based on news from Berlingske Tidende, B.T., Politiken, Ekstra Bladet and Morgenavisen Jyllands-Posten.

Distribution and Use of Image-evoking Language Constructions in Written News

Mag.Art., Associate Professor; Center of Journalism, Department of Language and Communication, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M,

Ph.D., Associate Professor; Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense,

Nordicom Review

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Linguistic exposures are image constructions and some of the most distinctive mechanisms in the discourse community of journalism.By exposing the journalistic...

Distribution and Use of Image-evoking Language Constructions in Written News

Published Online: Feb 14, 2017

Page range: 93 - 109

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0212

Keywords
journalism, newspapers, written news, narrative tools, image constructions, metaphor

© by Ebbe Grunwald

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Distribution and Use of Image-evoking Language Constructions in Written News

Published Online: Feb 14, 2017

Page range: 93 - 109

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0212

Keywordsjournalism, newspapers, written news, narrative tools, image constructions, metaphor

© by Ebbe Grunwald

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
journalism, newspapers, written news, narrative tools, image constructions, metaphor