Epistolary texts in a comparative perspective: the case of readers’ letters in Polish and English
Research Article
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11956/101962Identifiers
ISSN: 1805–9635
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2018Publisher
Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakultaSource document
Linguistica PragensiaPeriodical publication year: 2018
Periodical Volume: 28
Periodical Issue: 2
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English, epistolary texts, genre model, letter to the press, PolishThe article presents the genre model of the letter to the press based on a comparative study of 140
Polish and English readers’ letters. The analysis encompasses structural, pragmatic, semantic and
stylistic matters. The discussed texts are assigned their place within the letter genre, grouped into
different types depending on their propositional content and further characterized as marked by
a repertoire of genre signals. Additionally, the controversy over their genre membership (editorials
vs. letters) is resolved and they are recognized as genuine research material, notwithstanding some
degree of editorial bias involved in the publication process.