Multimodale Berichterstattungsmuster in der fernsehspezifschen Nachrichtentextsorte im deutsch-polnischen Vergleich

The paper aims to demonstrate the most important aspects of comparative text analysis based on reporting patterns in TV news both in German and Polish media. The main concern is the cultural background of the texts. The first part of the article concentrates on multimodality of media texts and on the text type ‘TV news’. Following this, the major concepts of the culturality of text types in the pertinent German literature are presented. Against the background of the theoretical founda- tions, upon which the contrastive analysis is built, an exemplary examination is carried out: which ways of multimodal arrangement of TV news concerning terrorist attacks can be discerned? The terrorist attacks in question and which are the topic of the selected TV news took place in Great Britain in the first half of 2017. They were covered by the mentioned TV channels.