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Publication details [#44688]

Lassen, Inger. 2006. Is the press release a genre? A study of form and content. Discourse Studies 8 (4) : 503–530.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

content1 | form | genre | press release | rhetorical effect

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper argues that although its textual form allows the press release to be considered as a genre, it does not merit this label in terms of content and rhetorical objective.