THE WEDDING REPORT A PROTOTYPICAL APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF TRADITIONAL TEXT TYPES -- Editorial page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of Tables -- Typographical Conventions -- PART ONE. PRELIMINARIES -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Topic -- Aims -- Methodology -- Corpus -- An Outline of the Book -- Chapter 2. Wedding Reports in Local Newspapers: Introducing the Text Type -- I. Family News in Local Contexts -- II. The Wedding Report: A First Description -- III. The Historical Development and the Reports of the 1930s -- PART TWO. KEY CONCEPTS AND APPROACHES -- Chapter 3. Text Type and Text Typology: Linguistic Approaches and Language Reality -- I. From Text to Text Typology -- II. Concepts and Definitions of Text Type -- III. The Study of Text Types -- IV. Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Traditional Text Type: The Concept and Its Implications For Methods and Aims -- I. The Concept of Traditional Text Type -- II. Problems of Fuzziness and Variability -- III. Further Methodological Questions -- IV. Conclusion: Summary of Methods and Aims -- Chapter 5. The Wedding Report as a News Text Type -- I. Media Discourse -- II. News Style -- III. The News Report -- IV. Conclusion: Implications for the Analysis -- PART THREE. TEXT-EXTERNAL CHARACTERISTICS -- Chapter 6. Situational Context (I): Definition of Components -- I. The Concept of Situational Context -- II. The Situational Context of the Wedding Report -- III. Conclusion -- Chapter 7. Situational Context (II): Text Production Processes -- I. News Text Production: A Dynamic Perspective -- II. Text Production Processes of the Wedding Report -- III. Conclusion -- Chapter 8. The Function of the Wedding Report -- I. Function, Text Type and News Text Types -- II. The Wedding Report and Other Family News Types -- III. Conclusion -- PART FOUR. CORPUS ANALYSIS.

Chapter 9. Content and Thematic Structure -- I. Content as a Defining Text Type Feature -- II. Quantitative Analysis: The Reports of the 1980s -- III. Subthemes and Thematic Structure -- IV. The Wedding Reports of the 1930s -- Chapter 10. Schematic Structure (I): The Wedding Report and Van Dijk's News Schema -- I. The Scope of Global Structures in Text Type Analysis -- II. The Wedding Report Schema -- III. Illustration: Global Schemata of a Representative Report -- IV. Conclusion -- Chapter 11. Schematic Structure (II): The Realisation of Global Structures -- I. The Headline -- II. The Lead -- III. The News Story -- IV. The Paragraph Structure -- V. Conclusion -- Chapter 12. Stylistic Microlevel Characteristics -- I. Wedding Report and Style on the Linguistic Microlevel -- II. Characteristics of News Style: A Selective Illustration -- III. Stereotyped Language in the Wedding Report -- IV. Microlevel Standardisation: Evaluation and Comparison -- V. Objective vs Subjective Microlevel Features -- VI. Conclusion -- PART FIVE. OUTLOOK AND CONCLUSION -- Chapter 13. Outlines of a Wider Perspective -- I. Family News Types and Local Communities -- II. Frames, Text Types and the Media -- III. Event and Text Type: Two Competing Wedding Frames? -- Chapter 14. Conclusion -- Underlying Concepts -- Text-External Characteristics -- Text-Internal Characteristics -- Variability and Text Type Variants -- Methodology -- APPENDICES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SUBJECT INDEX.