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Spooren, Wilbert, José Sanders and Afrooz Rafiee. 2018. Culture and discourse structure: A comparative study of Dutch and Iranian news texts. Discourse & Communication 12 (1) : 58–79.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

communication | culture | discourse structure | news reporting | text

Language as a subject

Dutch | Iranian

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This research defies the supremacy of the inverted news structure by covering a non-Western and less-explored culture and inquires whether news texts' textual structure can diverge between cultural contexts. 100 crime news texts from national Iranian and Dutch newspapers were assayed for overall text and journalists’ statements.