Essential Concepts of Journalism and Linguistic Analysis

The Fundamentals of Journalism and Linguistic Analysis

The news is the journalistic genre par excellence. It is characterized as the objective narration of an actual event that is of interest to many readers.

Key Linguistic Concepts

• Attributive Adjectives: Derived words that indicate the place of origin of someone or something.
• Interjections: Words that are, by themselves, set exclamatives.
• Phrases: A word or group of words that can have different syntactic functions within a sentence.
• Morphological Analysis: The classification of words into classes, also called grammatical categories.
• Parsing: The study of the roles of words in a sentence, specifically syntactic functions such as subject, direct object, attribute, and predicate.
• Noun Phrase (NP): Consists of a word or group of words whose core is a noun or pronoun.

Sentence Structure and Syntax

A sentence, like all statements, transmits full content, is separated from other statements by breaks, and has a particular intonation. Sentences are characterized by having two essential elements: a subject and a predicate.

Subject and Predicate Definitions

• Subject: The syntactic role played by the noun phrase whose core agrees with the verb in number and person.
• Impersonal Sentences: Sentences that lack a subject, whether express or elliptical.
• Predicate Verb Phrase: Expresses what is said about the subject. Without a predicate verb phrase, a sentence cannot exist.