In:The Wedding Report: A prototypical approach to the study of traditional text types
Hans-Jürg Suter
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series 27] 1993
► pp. vii–xii
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Published online: 1 September 1993
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.27.toc
https://doi.org/10.1075/pbns.27.toc
Table of contents
Preliminaries
Introduction3
Wedding Reports in Local Newspapers: Introducing the Text type10
Key Concepts and Approaches
Text Type and Text Typology: Linguistic Approaches and Language Reality29
Traditional Text Type: The Concept and Its Implications For Methods and Aims44
The Wedding Report as a News Text Type61
Text-External Characteristics
Situational Context (I): Definition of Components81
Situational Context (II): Text Production Processes93
The Function of the Wedding Report101
Corpus Analysis
Content and Thematic Structure109
Schematic Structure (I): The Wedding Report and Van Dijk's News Schema145
Schematic Structure (II): The Realisation of Global Structures163
Stylistic Microlevel Characteristics197
Outlook and Conclusion
Outlines of a wilder Perspective247
Conclusion258
Appendices267
Bibliography299
Subject Index309
