Broadcast Media (Units 7-9)

Television discourse is the discourse of news and analysis television programmes.

Broadcast media discourse has evolved from print media discourse and is universal in its essence.

Broadcast media discourse is ...

Simplification of the literary language norm and its democratisation is due to ...

TV  n e w s   b u l l e t i n   lists:

Gram., stylistic and synt. features are gram. constr-ons and gram. tenses, stylistic devices and synt. structures ...

The headlines are broadcast every 5 minutes in a news bulletin to keep the viewer informed on the news of the hour.

News of the day are called soft news.

Sometimes a news bulletin is interrupted by flash news.

A news ticker (a “crawler” or “slide”) is a primarily horizontal, text-based display dedicated to presenting headlines.

Television news bulletin opens and ends up with news headlines that are similar to newspaper headlines in lex. and gram.

The major linguistic features of broadcast media discourse are ...

Television discourse can be ...

An extended press review (расширенный обзор прессы) runs for ... minutes.

Cultural and entertainment news are called hard news.

The news bulletin is traditionally structured in the form of an “inverted pyramid”.

In its original format a comment or expert opinion exists only on television.

A press conference&a statement are an integral part of live reporting and are accompanied by news presenter’s comments.

But for several exceptions, lexical features of English broadcast media are almost the same as of English print media.

A comment or expert opinion explains or comments on an actual event by means of argumentation and generalization.

Broadcast media discourse in general does not mirror the current language in use.

Radio discourse is the discourse of radio news and analysis programmes, existing in prepared or spontaneous format.

Cultural and entertainment news are aired in the second half of the news programme.

A complete story by a reporter is called ... in radio and ... (also known as a report) in television news parlance.

Broadcast media discourse falls into television and radio discourse.