Election night broadcasts are instances of a macro-genre which consists of a complex, ordered assembly of interlocking genres. The emergent character of the news, the liveness of the broadcast and its multi-focal character make for a number of typical genres and genre sequences. The chapter… read more
Lauerbach, Gerda Eva 2011 EmphasisPragmatics in Practice, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 130–148 | Article