Publications

Publication details [#56154]

Barron, Anne. 2012. Public Information Messages. A contrastive genre analysis of state-citizen communication. (Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 222). John Benjamins. xix+340 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

English

Keywords

contextualization | crosscultural context | genre | information processing | pragmatics

Language as a subject

German | Irish

Annotation

Drawing on genre analysis, this paper contrasts a corpus of German and Irish state-run national public information campaigns, generates a moves taxonomy and explores the genre's interactional characteristics and links them to the context of use.