Jednorožec medzi médiami: cirkevné časopisy sa svojimi špecifikami vymykajú z bežného žurnalistického sveta
Unicorn Among the Media: For their Specifics the Church Magazines Spinout of the Common Journalistic World

Genre Comparison of Secular and Church Weeklies

Summary/Abstract: The study is presenting and interpreting comparative genre analysis, based on the sample of 1.242 articles in six Slovak weeklies (four secular and two Church ones). It is working with an update genre classification elaborated by T. Rončáková. Besides the distribution of genres themselves the study follows presence of the author’s opinion, presence of the author’s subject (represented by the 1st verb person) and presence of the hidden advertisement. The essential results are: style overlapping (journalistic style in Church periodicals is contaminated by administrative, science, art and rhetoric style); weakened au¬thor’s opinion, strengthened subjectivity and also absence of core journalistic genres. The authors conclude, that the Church magazines remain in the half way between tabloid and elite press, accept, to a large extent, their service character and give any evidence of ambitions in the field of stylistic skills and journalistic (opinion) approach to the social process. Because of this all the Church periodicals present a very specific segment within the press system (or media system in general) and their journalistic character could be impugnable.

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