This paper reports on two surveys of the treatment of place-names in the
Japan Times. The main findings are that deviations from prescribed style manual formats occur in the form of deletion and addition of information. Deletion occurs in reports of events in Tokyo. Addition of information occurs for various reasons. Of these, the two most important ones are pragmatic addition, which is the addition of background information to help readers understand the report in question, and news-making addition, which aims to make a report appear to be more interesting and unique. It is suggested that both deletion and the mixed motivations for adding information may reduce the comprehensibility of news reports.
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