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Publication details [#20991]

Weizman, Elda. 1984. Some register characteristics of journalistic language: Are they universals? Applied Linguistics 5 (1) : 39–49.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

discourse analysis | language universal | register

Journal WWW

http://www3.oup.co.uk/applij/contents/

Annotation

The author examines the notion of discourse characteristics of registers and the question of their universality. The aim is to emphasize the relevance of discourse analysis in the comparative study of registers, by way of discussing some discourse characteristics in one register across languages.