Open AccessNews as a Conversation. A Comparative Analysis of the Language of Online and Printed News in Italy
Author(s) -
Stefania Spina
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
recherches en communication
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2033-3331
pISSN - 1370-0480
DOI - 10.14428/rec.v40i40.49203
Subject(s) - newspaper , linguistics , conversation , the internet , computer science , history , media studies , world wide web , sociology , philosophy
Previous studies on newspaper language have already pointed out how the language of written news has undergone significant changes in the last two or three decades. The aim of this study is to move a step forward and to compare the use of selected linguistic features in online and in printed Italian news . The main hypothesis is that Internet and communication technologies have introduced important transformations in the way news is written, organized and delivered, and that the consequences of these transformations are observable at all levels of linguistic analysis.