Pragmatik der Personennamen im Pressebericht. Der Gebrauch von Namensformen und Pronominalisierungen in Zeitungsberichten zum Tod Arafats 2004

In what forms are individual persons referred to in newspaper reports? The paper gives a brief overview of the existing research on this subject, and outlines a method of coding the use of individual personal names in such texts. It then presents the results of a study on the forms of personal names in reports on the death of Yasser Arafat, with data from five national quality newspapers and five popular ones published in Germany on November 12, 2004. The results show peculiarities which are associated with the text-type variant of such newspaper reports, with their theme and with the medium, i.e. the kind of newspaper concerned.