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Khalil, Esam N. 2006. Communicating affect in news stories: The case of the lead sentence. Text 26 (3) : 329–349.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
De Gruyter

Annotation

This paper investigates the communication of affect in the lead sentences of Arabic news stories. Marking affect appears to be one pragmatic function served by text-initial spatiotemporal structures. The significance of reported sociopolitical events constitutes a crucial factor.