Open AccessReseña de Sommer, John Marcus. 2020. English and French Online Comments. A Text Linguistic Comparison of Popular Science Magazines. Berlin: Peter Lang. pp. 317.
Author(s) -
Elena Alcalde Peñalver
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
lfe. revista de lenguas para fines específicos/revista de lenguas para fines específicos
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2340-8561
pISSN - 1133-1127
DOI - 10.20420/rlfe.2021.395
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , field (mathematics) , popular science , media studies , sociology , history , art , visual arts , pedagogy , mathematics , science education , pure mathematics
This book approaches a linguistic study of the popular sciences magazines National Geographic, Discover, Sciences et Avenir and GEO from a very original perspective, since the author aims to describe the changes within the genre profiles of the magazines and the differences and similarities between their journalistic cultures. More specifically, since nowadays we live in a world in which social networks are playing an increasingly important role in the journalistic field (Jiménez Cano, 2017), the author focuses on the communicative practices of the readers of these magazines in two languages (French and English) and three platforms (Facebook, Twitter and Magazine-Website) in their print and online versions...