Language in Popular Scientific Magazines (Scientific American)

Mgr. Pavla Šimková

Bachelor's thesis

Abstract:

Bachelor thesis Language in popular scientific magazines (Scientific American) deals with analysis of the journalistic style in popular scientific magazines and the stylistic characteristics of the language of the journalistic style. For the analysis, four issues of the Scientific American magazine were selected as a sample material. Methods used for the study involve text analysis, comparative study of styles and interpretation of the text and context. The work focused mainly on analysis of the characteristic features of headlines and subheadlines. Description of the regular text types is also provided including characteristics of the magazine sections and individual rubrics, authors, the style of quotation, and remarkable traits of the table of contents.

Keywords

Styles, style analysis, written discourse, journalistic style, scientific prose, popular scientific style

Jazyk práce: English

Datum vytvoření / odevzdání či podání práce: 14. 6. 2006

Obhajoba závěrečné práce

• Obhajoba proběhla 14. 6. 2006
• Vedúci: doc. Mgr. Martin Adam, Ph.D.

Masaryk University

Faculty of Education

Bachelor programme / odbor:
Teacher Training for Primary Schools / Lower Secondary School Teacher Training in Foreign Languages - English