News report
(Subregister of Narrative)- News reports written by journalists and published by news outlets
- Releases and newsletters published by sports associations, companies, etc.
- Weather forecasts
- Text purpose is to report on recent events
- Typically professionally written and time-sensitive - published and read as fast as possible
- See Biber & Egbert 74-75
Examples
Ambiguous cases resolved to NA-ne
- A report on the schedule of a major in a week: NA-ne sounds good, if there’s some persuasion to attend some event, then also IP-oi
- A news report page, about the fluctuations of the price of chicken and it is 7 paragraphs. Even though it is written as a news report, each of the 7 paragraphs is a quotation (from the responsible person in the government): annotated as NA-ne only