The explicitation of proper names in expository news texts.

Autor/in	Bjorge, Anne Kari
Titel	The explicitation of proper names in expository news texts.
Quelle	In: International journal of applied linguistics, 13 (2003) 1, S. 115-138Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Anmerkungen; Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1473-4192
DOI	10.1111/1473-4192.00040
Schlagwörter	Nachrichten; Zeitung; Apposition; Korpusanalyse; Onomastik; Syntax; Textanalyse; Übersetzungswissenschaft; Englisch; England; Großbritannien
Abstract	The article addresses the combination of proper name and descriptive appositive in expository news texts, e.g. Thorn EMI, the music and rental group. This apposition construction is particularly frequent in news texts. It may well be that, like translators, journalists have to make assumptions concerning the situational and cultural context they share with their readership, and, as a result, feel compelled to add information if they consider this necessary for identifying the reference of the proper name in question. Thus, the term explicitation taken from translation theory can also be applied to news texts. It is argued that the construction is more typical of news items than of other kinds of newspaper prose, such as feature material. In addition to identification, the construction also serves to establish the newsworthiness of the person or entity referred to. Unlike previous research, the article focuses on proper names in general, not only on those with personal reference. The analysis is based on a corpus of 3,039 examples taken from two British quality newspapers, The Times and the Financial Times. (Verlag, adapt.).
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Update	2023/1