SYNTACTIC MINIMALISM AND INFORMATION DENSITY IN JOURNALISTIC TEXTS
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This body of scholarly literature examines syntactic minimalism and information density as core features of contemporary journalistic discourse. The referenced works provide a theoretical and empirical foundation for analyzing how journalistic texts achieve communicative efficiency through syntactic reduction, lexical compression, and pragmatic inference. Corpus linguistics studies demonstrate diachronic changes in sentence length, clause complexity, and lexical density, highlighting the shift toward minimalist syntactic structures in modern news writing. Cognitive and discourse-oriented research explains these changes in terms of information processing constraints, reader behavior, and media technology. Critical discourse analysis further reveals the ideological implications of syntactic compression, particularly in relation to agency, objectivity, and evaluative framing. Collectively, these sources support an interdisciplinary understanding of syntactic minimalism as an adaptive linguistic strategy shaped by social, technological, and cognitive factors in journalistic communication.
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