Lavid López, María JuliaArús Hita, JorgeMoratón Gutiérrez, LaraCarter-Thomas, ShirleyLandragin, Frédéric2024-10-022024-10-022012Julia Lavid, Jorge Arús and Lara Moratón, « Genre Realized in Theme: The Case of News Reports and Commentaries », Discours [Online], 10 | 2012, Online since 16 July 2012, connection on 19 April 2019. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/discours/8623 ; DOI : 10.4000/discours.862310.4000/discours.8623https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/108563ABSTRACT: The purpose of this paper is to analyze how the clausal thematic features observed in two newspaper genres —news reports and commentaries— can be interpreted as textual signals of their dif erent generic characterization. This is done through the qualitative and quantitative analysis of a sample consisting of thirty-three English texts, divided into two groups of seventeen news reports and sixteen commentaries, respectively. The analysis focused on the following thematic features: (1) the experiential elements selected as Thematic Heads; (2) the semantic nature of the nominal elements realizing these Heads and their internal structure; (3) the textual and interpersonal thematic choices as part of a multiple theme. The analysis reveals that each newspaper genre prefers certain thematic features and that the dif erences between the two genres are statistically signii cant. It is suggested that these thematic preferences can be attributed to genre-related variables such as the communicative purpose or the subject matter of the text.engAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/journal article1963-1723https://journals.openedition.org/discours/8623https://doi.org/10.4000/discours.8623https://journals.openedition.org/discours/https://www.puc-ed.fr/review/https://www.lattice.cnrs.fr/open access070070.431811.111'4Newspaper genresThematic featuresReportsCommentariesFilología inglesaLingüísticaPeriodismo5505.10 Filología57 Lingüística