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Table of Contents
List of Tables and Figures
1 Introduction
2 Field of Research
2.1 Current State of Scientific Research
2.2 Outline of Newspapers Used in the Study
2.2.1 Tabloids
2.2.2 Mid-Market Tabloids
2.2.3 Broadsheets
2.2.4 Circulation
2.3 Readership Profiles
3 The Language of Sports in the Media
3.1 The Language of Newspapers
3.2 The Term “Language of Sports”
3.3 The Football Match Report
4 Analysis and Database
4.1 Methodology
4.1.1 Corpus Linguistics
4.1.2 Corpus Compilation
4.2 Sentences
4.2.1 Sentence Length
4.2.2 Sentence Fragments
4.2.3 Complexity of Sentences
4.3 Use of Active / Passive Voice
4.4 Type / Token Ratio
4.5 The Use of That…
4.5.1 That- Complement Clauses
4.5.2 Post Modifiers – That as a Relative Pronoun
4.5.3 Demonstrative Determiners
4.5.4 Demonstrative Pronouns
4.5.5 Distribution of That – Result
4.5.5.1 Distribution of That in Relation to Absolute Number
of That in Each Newspaper
4.5.5.2 Distribution of That in Relation to the Sub-Corpus
4.5.5.3 The Distribution of That – A Comparison of Broadsheets and Tabloids
5 Conclusion
Works Cited
- Quote paper
- Florian Schweitzer (Author), 2012, A Comparison of the Syntax of Football Match Reports in British Newspapers, Munich, GRIN Verlag, https://www.grin.com/document/264339
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