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Terminated in academic year 2020/2021

Language and the Style of Journalistic Genres

Type of study Bachelor
Language of instruction Czech
Code 116-0349/01
Abbreviation JSŽŽ
Course title Language and the Style of Journalistic Genres
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Marketing and Business
Course coordinator doc. PhDr. Hana Srpová, CSc.

Subject syllabus

1. Journalism, genology, genres generally
2. Journalistic genres (informative/news, analytic/journalistic, fiction
3. A process of journalistic texts creation; composition of news; lead
4. Language and the style of journalism; words, sentences, over-sentence forms
5. Language and the style of headlines
6. Meta-language expressions in journalism; words accentuated by quotes
7. Means of indirect nomination in journalism
8. Means of non-verbal communication in journalism
9. Editorial
10. Information article, story
11. Essay and other entertainment genres
12. Report; interview; review; editorial
13. Feature; a short story from the court vs. a report from the court
14. Investigative journalism

Literature

LOTZ, R. E. Crime and the American Press. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1991.

Advised literature

BLAKE, G. – BLY, R. W. The Elements of Copywriting. New York: MacMillan, 1997.