Syntactic Complexity in Danish Radio News
The present article documents a diachronic decline in syntactic complexity in manuscript-based radio news on the primary Danish public service channel, DR, from 1946 to 2006. This decline corresponds to a general shift in radio news language from a traditional formal news style to a modern news styl...
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| description | The present article documents a diachronic decline in syntactic complexity in manuscript-based radio news on the primary Danish public service channel, DR, from 1946 to 2006. This decline corresponds to a general shift in radio news language from a traditional formal news style to a modern news style based on the principles of natural spoken language. It is, however, hard to assess whether the syntactic changes have had an effect on how easy or difficult it is to understand what is being said on DR – a topic that has been frequently and fervently debated in the Danish press. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-8dd57eb148f84c54ad36152d0a94a6da2023-09-02T22:16:43ZengSciendoNordicom Review2001-51192011-06-013219310910.1515/nor-2017-0107Syntactic Complexity in Danish Radio NewsBlom Jonas Nygaard0Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Centre for Journalism, Department of Political Science and Public Management, University of Southern DenmarkThe present article documents a diachronic decline in syntactic complexity in manuscript-based radio news on the primary Danish public service channel, DR, from 1946 to 2006. This decline corresponds to a general shift in radio news language from a traditional formal news style to a modern news style based on the principles of natural spoken language. It is, however, hard to assess whether the syntactic changes have had an effect on how easy or difficult it is to understand what is being said on DR – a topic that has been frequently and fervently debated in the Danish press.https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0107radio newspublic servicesyntaxcognitioncomprehensiondiscourse |
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| title | Syntactic Complexity in Danish Radio News |
| title_full | Syntactic Complexity in Danish Radio News |
| title_fullStr | Syntactic Complexity in Danish Radio News |
| title_full_unstemmed | Syntactic Complexity in Danish Radio News |
| title_short | Syntactic Complexity in Danish Radio News |
| title_sort | syntactic complexity in danish radio news |
| topic | radio news public service syntax cognition comprehension discourse |
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