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Publication details [#38988]

Khalil, Esam N. 1985. News discourse : A strategy of recasting. Journal of Pragmatics 9 (5) : 621–643.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural communication | news reporting | pragmatic function | translation

Language as a subject

Arabic | English

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This paper uses data from news discourse to account for a cross-cultural communication problem in translation from English into Arabic. The paper focuses on two temporal/aspectual entities, kna qad and qad, whose meaning and function in news discourse were hitherto unexplored.