The author takes into consideration a random sample of spoken and written secondary-communication texts, i.e radio, television and internet texts, attempting to outline their properties and point to some potential register-related differences between texts used by national media on the one hand and those used by private media on the other, as well as to the selection of register in internet texts. The Analysis in centred upon the choice of register, upon the relation between verbal and non-verbal elements, and, in particular, upon ways in which characteristics of a given communicative situation are reflected in the text (formal vs informal communicative setting, public vs private communicative setting, addressee's cognitive encyclopedia and expectations). As predicted by the preliminary hypothesis, differences between the texts were based mainly on the producer's language awarness and competence, where as concrete communicative circumstances (formality vs informality, public vs private communication, spoken vs written communication) played a less important role.
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