| 释义 |
tabloidese, n. orig. and chiefly Brit. (freq. depreciative).
Brit. |ˌtablɔɪˈdiːz|, U.S. |ˌtæblɔɪˈdiz|
[‹ tabloid n. + -ese suffix. Compare earlier journalese n. and tabloidism n., and compare also tabloid-speak n. at tabloid n. and adj. Compounds 2.]
The language or style considered characteristic of tabloid journalism, esp. comprising such elements as a pithy and abbreviated style, stock phrases and colloquial vocabulary, and a sensationalist or reductive tone.
1981K. Waterhouse Daily Mirror Style 11 Not only..newspapers but television newsreaders speak fluent Tabloidese (‘Good evening. The dollar takes a pounding’). 1988Newsday (Nassau ed.) 22 Feb. 18/2 She could admire Murdoch's Post for its pure tabloidese, but..he and his editors, ‘only understood half of what it meant to be a tabloid’. 1990N.Y. Times 22 Aug. c16/5 Mr. Shawn, who talks a herniated tabloidese: (‘The rhetoric of strife sliced through the uneasy calm’) seems to operate on the principle..that if you put two opposing incendiary statements together..and then add a moderate statement, you have done the journalist's job. 1991Daily Tel. 9 Jan. 17/4 The World Service News avoids the Butcher of Baghdad sort of tabloidese, which is one of the reasons it enjoys such credibility. 2002Independent on Sunday (Electronic ed.) 10 Feb. 17 It was announced in the News of the World last Sunday that Katy [sic] Price, otherwise known as Jordan (or ‘the surgically-enhanced supermodel Jordan’, in tabloidese) planned to broadcast the birth of her son live on the internet. |