Lexical Expressivity and its Potential to Violate the Objectivity in News Reporting Cover Image

Lexikální expresivita jako prostředek porušení objektivity ve zpravodajských sděleních
Lexical Expressivity and its Potential to Violate the Objectivity in News Reporting

Author(s): Viktor Jílek
Subject(s): Language studies, Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci
Keywords: Expressivity; information quality; informative functions; lexicology; manipulation; mass media; objectivity; preferred reading; sememe evaluation; stylistics; narrative context; Westerståhl; news

Summary/Abstract: Evaluative expressives undermine the objectivity of news reporting. To identify them, a complex taxonomy has been created. Subsequent analysis of television news has shown a high frequency of use of evaluation expressions in the statement, moreover contextually connected with other evaluation units.

  • Issue Year: 13/2021
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 256-283
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Czech
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