Burton suggests that each text in a genre shares particular key elements. This theory can relate to newspapers, as some of his elements include:
- Plots and Stock situations
This is relevant to newspapers as stock situations and plots are stereotypical situations which could lead to the conventions of different types of newspapers such as a broadsheet containing more content on worldwide news or a tabloid containing more sensational topics. Stock situations can also link to the headlines which could include puns, catchy phrases or advertisement of competitions for example in a tabloid.
Icons are relevant to newspapers as they include the use of colours. Broadsheets use less colour as opposed to a tabloid. Icons can also include the pictures on the front page of the newspaper as tabloids sometimes include revealing pictures of celebrities whereas, broadsheets rarely use images including celebrities.
The themes could represent the ideas in each story for example, a tabloid will contain gossip stories about celebrities or people in general whereas a broadsheet will contain serious topics in great detail.
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