The primary aim of the present study was to investigate how contemporary newspaper obituaries function as a genre and how they are composed and organized in systematic ways. Thirty obits from two prototypical quality papers, the New York Times (USA) and the Daily Telegraph (United Kingdom), were examined via a program called "WordSmith 4.0". The comparisons and analyses performed on the collected samples revealed that the two varieties of newspaper obits shared the major elements of attribution, abstract, biography, and coda, but they differed from each other in several aspects of formulation. For instance, the New York Times obits were news-oriented while the Daily Telegraph obituaries were more personality-oriented. Moreover, each of the dailies had its own way of crediting the source of supply, listing the circumstances of death and surviving family members, referring to the subject, etc.
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