ABSTRACT
Critical news analysis can focus on different kinds of segments of its textual materials. Sociolinguistics demonstrates that there are complex and subtle variations of style in utterances and texts within a community; that this variation is systematic, rule-governed and, because systematic, capable of carrying social significances. There is also a more generalized stylistic allusiveness which may almost amount to parody: some article in a newspaper may strive to sound like fiction, or scientific report, or documentary, or police investigation, legal judgement, parliamentary speech, or whatever. Finally, critical news analysis has a large area of prospective study in the newspapers’ rendering of oral sources and other individual utterances and writings. In the papers, a large amount of report is based on speeches, statements, replies to questions and interviews.
