Published 2017-08-01
“…The author considers communicative and pragmatic peculiarities of narratives about Kim Kardashian on the material of articles from a quality newspaper “
Frankfurter Rundschau” and tabloid “Express.” Analysis of the empirical material showed that the dominant markers of the narratives under consideration are: the lack of direct contact between narrator and celebrity; the frequency of evidence constructions for marking source of information to describe the hero; imagery and expressiveness in the portrait descriptions of celebrity; contrastive image of celebrity’s wealth and poverty as sensational detail; using a reduced vocabulary for the journalistic evaluation of the behaviour of a celebrity in a tabloid newspaper; portrait of a celebrity as a character in narrative or case reference when characterizing other denotative content; the alternation of the sensations in celebrity life and periods of comparative calm scene of action, that is, “weak positions” in the narrative structure.…”
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