Publications

Publication details [#35107]

Lutz, Benedikt and Ruth Wodak. 1987. Information für Informierte: Linguistische Studien zu Verständlichkeit und Verstehen von Hörfunknachrichten. [Information for the informed: Linguistic studies on the comprehensibility and comprehension of radio news.] Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. 296 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

German

Keywords

comprehensibility | comprehension | linguistics | radio report, comprehension of | sociolinguistics

Annotation

This study proposes an integrative comprehension model, including textual, sociological and psychological dimensions, to explain different achievements in radio comprehension according to sociolinguistic criteria. Examples are presented of detailed analyses of radio news comprehension in Austria.

Reviewed by

Rost, Martina G. 1990. Review of $Information für Informierte: Linguistische Studien zu Verständlichkeit und Verstehen von Hörfunknachrichten.