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Publication details [#60087]

Rundblad, Gabriella and Huijun Chen. 2015. Advice-giving in newspaper weather commentaries. Journal of Pragmatics 89 : 14–30.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

advising | discourse strategy | journalese | vocative | weather report

Language as a subject

Chinese

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/web-editions

Annotation

This study compares advice-giving strategies in weather commentaries in two Chinese newspapers: the Beijing Morning Post and the Beijing Evening News. Extreme weather elicits more advice and different discourse strategies. “High-status” vocatives are the main tool for writers taking an authoritative stance.