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Publication details [#14314]

Halmari, Helena and Jan-Ola Östman. 2001. The soft-spoken, angelic pickax killer: The notion of discourse pattern in controversial news reporting. Journal of Pragmatics 33 (6) : 805–823.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
Elsevier
ISBN
0378-2166

Annotation

The notion of 'discourse pattern' is applied to newspaper reports of a controversial execution. It is shown that, even when the routine pattern of reporting could be expected to change due to the nature of the case at hand, implicit means in the newspaper reports follow the expected discourse pattern. It is argued that the notion of discourse pattern is a function of discourse coherence and textual interpretation.