Preformulating the news an analysis of the metapragmatics of press releases - Jacobs, Geert (J. Benjamins, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-417) and indexes
A Pragmatic Perspective on Press Releases -- - Institutional discourse, professional discourse, organizational discourse -- - Towards a research method -- - The activity of issuing press releases -- - The language of press releases -- - Newsmaking and news management -- - Projected Discourse -- - Models of receiver roles -- - Functional analysis of receiver roles in press releases -- - Projected discourse -- - Self-Reference in Press Releases -- - The institutional voice -- - Data analysis -- - Meeting the formal requirements of news reporting (preformulation[subscript i]) -- - Content 'in sync' (preformulation[subscript ii]) -- - Displaced discourse -- - Co-operation and beyond -- - Self-Quotation in Press Releases -- - Quotations in press releases -- - Self-quotation -- - Constructed quotations -- - (P)reformulation -- - The view from Bakhtin -- - The Functions of Self-Quotation in Press Releases -- - Point of view operation -- - The dramatic function -- - The distancing function -- - The reliability function -- - The attitude function -- - Explicit Semi-Performatives in Press Releases -- - Explicit semi-performatives in press releases -- - Preformulation[subscript i] -- - Preformulation[subscript ii] -- - Self-quotes and performatives -- - A Case Study of the Valdez Corpus -- - Exxon's Valdez news -- - General structure -- - Presupposition manipulations -- - Self-reference -- - Self-quotation -- - Explicit semi-performatives -- - Perspective: asymmetries in the news -- - Interpretation and pre-interpretation
Keywords: Communiqués de presse; Métalangage; Pragmatique; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Public Relations; Persberichten; Pressemitteilung; Textsorte; Pragmatik; Metalanguage; Pragmatics; Press releases; Wirtschaft