Journalistic Language and Information Genres
General Characteristics of Journalistic Language
Journalistic language is influenced by several factors: technological advancements, foreign languages (especially English), other discourses (e.g., political, literary, colloquial), and sometimes, deliberate ambiguity and casual language use.
Morphosyntactic Features
- Tendency to place the subject at the end of the sentence.
- Lengthy sentences due to verbal phrases, paraphrases, prepositional and conjunctive phrases, redundant expressions, subheadings,
Communication and Literary Analysis: A Comprehensive Guide
Communication and Language
Defining Communication
Communication, a social science field, explores how communicative exchanges occur and impact society. It investigates the principles, concepts, and regularities underlying communication as a social process. Language, the ability to communicate through oral or written signs, plays a crucial role.
Language and its Variations
Language is a system of signs learned and retained by speakers. A dialect is a sign system derived from a common language, often
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UNIT 1: COMMUNICATION
1.1 Definition
Communication is an act whereby an individual (human, animal, or object) provides one or more other contacts that let you transmit certain information.
Elements of Communication
- Issuer: Subject to the act of communication occurs.
- Referring: The extra-linguistic reality referred to by the message communication.
- Joint Signs: Code, interrelated, and rules of construction, available to the sender and receiver.
- Message: Result of coding, carrier of information, or the amount
Forms of Linguistic Expression
Unit 5: Forms of Linguistic Expression
Communication
The concept of communication has two aspects:
- Content: The message itself.
- Expression: The form the message takes.
These are forms of expression:
Description
This is a picture drawn with words. In the description of a person, when it refers to physical features, it’s called prosopography, and when it refers to moral traits, it’s called etopeya. The description uses the adjective, whose function is to identify concrete and abstract qualities of the noun
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CHILD Yuntero
This poem tells the story of a very poor young man who owns only one ox and a plow.
Metric Analysis:
- Consists of 15 verses and 60 lines.
- Uses eight-syllable verses.
- Employs consonant rhyme with an ABAB rhyme scheme (chained rhyme).
- The type of art is minor, with 15 quatrains.
Expressive Resources:
- “Meat yoke” is a metaphor.
- “Was born, as the tool” is a comparison.
- “An olive-colored soul” is synesthesia.
- “To live” and “to die” create an antithesis.
- “Life as a war” is another comparison.
- The beginning
Language and Linguistics
Item 1: Language
Basic Units of Language
- Phoneme: The smallest unit of sound representing language.
- Syllable: Consists of one or more phonemes that are pronounced in a single broadcast voice.
- Morpheme: The minimum unit endowed with meaning.
- Word: The union of one or more morphemes, with which we get a complete lexical unit of meaning.
- Syntactic Group or Phrase: A word or group of words connected by relationships that have meaning and serve a whole.
- Statement, Phrase, and Sentence: The minimum communication