Estrategias de acomodación del género noticia en función de su propósito comunicativo.

Abstract

The main concern of this paper is to deal with the generic structural pattern of hard news in two well-known British national daily newspapers, The Times and The Sun, with the purpose of describing and explaining how and why these two dailies order and categorize their news exhibiting a preference for a specific set of devices or text strategies. Van Dijk’s model of textual superstructures (1988b) provide a starting point to learn that there is no fixed formal rule and that variation is possible depending on communicative context. The data examined show to what extent situational factors determine and influence the discourse structure of news stories. These results also indicate how in the organization of news the relationship between form and social function is very obvious.