Essays about: "tabloid language"

Found 5 essays containing the words tabloid language.

  1. 1. Death becomes her. Journalistic portrayals of murdered women and their bodies as subject, object and abject in Swedish high profile murder cases

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för mediestudier

    Author : Maria Kjellman Wall; [2019]
    Keywords : media representation; crime journalism; objectification; abjection; murder; Thematic Analysis; Critical Discourse Analysis; Multimodal Visual Analysis; intersectionality; grief journalism; media and communication studies;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns how murdered women and their bodies are represented through written and visual language in tabloid crime journalism. Two Swedish high profile murders were chosen through a purposeful sampling, and 436 articles from Sweden's two largest tabloid newspapers, Aftonbladet and Expressen, were thematized through Thematic Analysis. READ MORE

  3. 2. Using the F-measure to test formality in sports reporting : A comparison of the language used in soccer and horse polo articles in two British newspapers

    University essay from Karlstads universitet/Institutionen för språk, litteratur och interkultur (from 2013)

    Author : Daniel Eriksson; [2017]
    Keywords : register; f-measure; formality; soccer; horse polo; register; f-measure; formalitet; fotboll; hästpolo;

    Abstract : This paper investigates the formality level of the language used in twenty articles from two sports that seem to cater to different social classes (soccer and horse polo). The articles that serve as the data were published in two different types of British newspapers, one broadsheet (The Daily Telegraph) and one tabloid (The Daily Express) from September 2010 through November 2017. READ MORE

  4. 3. Metaphor and metonymy : A study of figurative language in newspapers

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Malin Schultz; [2012]
    Keywords : tabloid; broadsheet; structural metaphors; orientational metaphors; ontological metaphors;

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  5. 4. Stylistic Effect and Use of Metaphors in Broadsheet Papers versus Tabloids

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Elin Hallgren; [2012]
    Keywords : Figurative language newspaper new metaphor conventional metaphor dead metaphor;

    Abstract : The use of figurative language can be found in all kinds of texts but the manner it is used differs. This piece of work deals with the frequency of the use of metaphors in general and the distribution of its three subcategories - new, conventional and dead metaphors - in articles from a broadsheet paper and a tabloid. READ MORE

  6. 5. Newspaper Readability : a Broadsheet vs. a Tabloid

    University essay from Institutionen för humaniora och samhällsvetenskap

    Author : Kristina Järvbäck Hillbom; [2009]
    Keywords : newspapers; readability; sentence complexity;

    Abstract : Is it possible to trace differences in the syntax used in various newspapers and how these differences influence the readability? Earlier studies confirm this and show that it is possible to make a wider distinction between the languages used in for example a broadsheet compared to the language used in a tabloid. In this study, both sentence length and sentence complexity of a broadsheet and a tabloid with a similar political stance were examined in order to find out if it is possible to show differences in readability between the two newspapers. READ MORE