NARRATIVE STYLES IN EUROPEAN NEWSPAPERS
NARRATIVE STYLES IN EUROPEAN NEWSPAPERS

Summary/Abstract: This article presents a comparison between the style of the news in some European languages. The structure of the news cannot be accounted for by the theories of narrative as they describe a single event rather than a sequence held by temporal and causal relations. An method to describe the organization of the news, based on propositional contents, their distribution over text spans, and the grammatically focussed elements is presented and tested. The comparison, although still experimental, beside proving the adequacy of the proposed method, shows that the journalistic style is quite uniform through Europe and the differences depend more upon different grammatical constraints than upon rhetorical choices.

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