Abstract
This paper presents the main lines of the design and the findings of a reception study on news comprehension. This empirical study is a comparison of the comprehension processes of Danes and French Canadians over a set of news texts from both countries. Comprehension is explored from a cultural perspective, through the lens of cognition and pragmatics, revealing the role played by cultural knowledge in comprehension and the underlying relationship between a text and its intended audience. It is argued that recipients ‘problematise’ the news texts, a process by which the texts answer questions that take their roots in the cultural knowledge of the recipients.
| Original language | English |
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| Journal | Participations.Journal of audience and reception studies |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 77-117 |
| Number of pages | 41 |
| ISSN | 1749-8716 |
| Publication status | Published - May 2009 |