Journalistic Genres: Reporting, Opinion, and Mixed Forms
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The journalistic genres:
the journalistic texts serve two functions: to inform and comment; also try to entertain the receiver. “The reporting function is so affected by disseminating objective information regarding events, which are considered of general interest. “The function values, interpretations or opinion involves making judgments or evaluations about the facts. / To fulfill a function or another, there are various forms of creation that we call journalistic genres, we can clsificar into two groups:
1. -Generate reports / 1.1.La news:
the informative genre par excellence. It is characterized by accurate facts objectively, topical, and it is assumed that are of general interest. It consists of the following parts: –
Holders:
They try to condense the essence of fact related. Are very important for newspapers, serving both to attract the attention of readers as to provide a first advance of events. Subtitle Antetítulo and serve to supplement the information contained in the title. From a linguistic point of view, are notable for their brevity and conciseness. Verbs often appear in this, and often are ignored. It also tends to omit the introductory verb to use direct style. –
Entradilla or lead:
It is the first paragraph of the story. It accumulates the most relevant information. Sometimes he appears with a different letter or bold type. –
Body or development of the story, which gives a thorough account of all the details of the event reported. / The content of the news is often structured on a declining basis, or “inverted pyramid”. This esstructuración often repetitive, because what is said in the headline is repeated in the intro, and also in the body but with more information. The wording must respond to the 6 key aspects of a fact (rule 6 W): who, what, where, how, when and why, although not all questions have to be necessarily always answered.
1.2.El report :
The newspaper account of a certain size and very personal writing style, which interested in explaining how they happened about certain facts. In the preparation of reports becomes more important the documentation service, which is the storehouse of information materials that have the means. In the report have large imports –
the headline should be as attractive as possible, often used phrases, song titles or movies, puns … –
The theme has to ofrcer great interest, whether human, social, sporting … –
Image:
pictures, graphs, maps … Become important in attracting atneción of recptor. / Due to its extensió, reports upon their release in the daily press.As linguistic features of genres report states: “To fulfill their role and easily reach readers should use clear language, concise and correct, from a medium-high, with descriptive adjectives, and a glossary objective. Sometimes, journalists can also use a specialized vocabulary. “At the morphosyntactic level, predominantly built in the third person verbs in perfect tense and indicative. “To meet the information needs of precision and clarity, there is plenty of expansion through various supplements and subordinate clauses of all kinds. -Using the direct style remarcarr objectivity. There is also a tendency to combine direct with indirect style. -Frequent use of the passive voice, reflects both analytically omo.
2.-GENRES OPINION:
pose a competitive argument the press on the radio or television. The paper will endeavor to convince the reader of his position and influence their social responses.
2.1.The editorial:
Text of the opinion, published unsigned, which provides the institutional point of the medium vsita regarding an issue that is considered outstanding and relevant the current report. The editorial described, explained, fight, criticize, warn, support or predict all with serious style and rigorous in trying to win as credible. They have a great influence on public opinion and largely will decide the newspaper readers.
2.2. Article:
The current genre of journalism star. It is a text in which the author presents his thoughts on a topic that may be interested in your date, or for historical, artistic … It is the genre that allows greater subjectivity and it is estimated the quality of the idiom and the subjective force of the content. Some items are close to literature, even their authors gathered in books published, sold as authentic literary creations. Mariano José de Larra, Unamuno, Ortega y Gasset, … Are just some of the many writers who have filled the pages of literary quality of our papers with your articles. There will always signed and is the person writing that takes responsibility for the views presented and usually has a short title and connotative. The columnists are big ariculos and opinion leaders have great influence on public opinion.
2.3.La criticism:
Overview valuation of an artistic work or show. Usually appear on specific pages of the newspaper. Critics often have the same structure: 1-Technical: data relating to the work in question. 2-Title: may be only informational or already contain the first trial. 3-Text: antecedents include the work and its author, argument and critical judgments. / Sometimes, the assessment is systematized by iconic elements. The criticism will be deeper in supplements and special publications in the daily press. In the genres of view there are also common linguistic features, despite the creative freedom that gives a very persoanl tone to each of these texts, “includes references to the issuer by means of pronominal forms or verbal first-person. -Predominant adjectives, adverbs and evaluative constructs. -Using deliberative substantive content. -Inclusion of all types of expressive resources, such as metaphors, metonymy, hyperbole, parallelism, etc … -Using the declarative tone, so that serves to make sense of security and confidence in the reader. This is particularly noticeable in the use of present tense and verbal perífraisi obligation. “Usually, these texts combinana data exposure, with the argument, with which you defend or oponiones discharged rebatne other.
3.-MIXED GENRES: We include in this section mezcaln genres that information with the view, this union occurs increasingly in the press today.
Chronic 3.1.La:
The story of events that have developed over time and consider panorámciamente interested. This is information in which the journalist recounts a time and considers the narrative. The writer interprets and values, gives us a personal and subjective view of the facts, so it is always signed. The journalist traveling to events. There are many tales of all kinds. Increasingly blurred in the current press the line between news and the chronic, so some speak also of “news-comment.” 3.2.La interview:
It is the verbatim transcript of the dialogue which the journalist with someone is a very popular genre and serves popular print media to compete with the impression that offer direct contact radio and television. There are two types: a) Thematic Interview: ofrce views of an expert in a subject, which is the real reason texo interest. B) personality: she is interested in the person being interviewed and their answers are only a means to discover their way of being and thinking. / In the transcript of an interview responses allow some room for adjustment, since it is the passage from the oral to written language. In this genre becomes very important figure dle interviewer. The interview may be accompanied by pictures and matching is important also appeared a good headline.