A THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL APPROACH TO THE LANGUAGE OF NEWSPAPER REPORTING (English version)

The aim of this paper is the identification of some specific linguistic elements of English newspaper reporting by means of a dual approach. On the one hand, we based our research on a theoretical approach that relies on a contrastive linguistic study of two authentic newspaper articles presenting two distinct legal cases. In the analysis of the two texts we have had in view their graphic, grammatical, syntactic and stylistic peculiarities. The comparative theoretical analysis focuses on the overall structure of the texts, but also on a more detailed lexical structure. The articles are compared in terms of their headlining, paragraphing, type of sentence syntax, vocabulary and stylistics. The comparative approach to these texts reveals lexical and stylistic similarities, as well as significant differences between them. Our discussion on several stylistic aspects in the two articles is meant to underline their general impact on the reader. On the other hand, since the two texts have a similar thematic structure - information on two legal cases - we have also had in view a practical approach to them. This has been done in a brief presentation of the use of the language material during our legal English seminars.