• Original research article
  • November 19, 2014
  • Open access

INFORMATION STRUCTURE OF NEWS TEXT IN GENDER ASPECT

Abstract

The article is devoted to gender studies, which are one of the leading trends of modern linguistics, and reveals the gender features of the English news text. The author pays special attention to the analysis of the gender specifics of the information structure of news text and differences in information blocks as themselves. The paper also examines the influence of sociocultural and psychological factors on the peculiarities of text-forming by male and female journalists.

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Author information

Elena Sergeevna Aleksandrova

Volgograd State University

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Publication history

  • Published: November 19, 2014.

Keywords

  • гендерные исследования
  • лингвистика
  • новостной текст
  • информационная структура
  • массово-информационный дискурс
  • gender studies
  • linguistics
  • news text
  • information structure
  • mass media discourse

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