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Publication details [#61546]

Ebner, Carmen. 2016. Language guardian BBC? Investigating the BBC's language advice in its 2003 News Styleguide. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 37 (3) : 308–320.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

language use | news reporting | prescribing | style | text type

Language as a subject

English, British

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

The study concludes that the BBC 2003 News Style guide tries to equipoise imperative and descriptive language visions to content its audience, which is exemplified by two particular usage difficulties (concede and data).