Function of "It" in Journalistic Style

Abstract

This bachelor paper clarifies the use of different types of the pronoun it in journalistic style. The theoretical part deals with individual functions of this pronoun that are used in English language and describes their features and differences between them. This part forms a basis for the practical part which examines the occurrence of individual types of the pronoun it and describes other characteristic properties from the samples selected from journalistic articles. This thesis aims to examine and determine the most frequent usage of the pronoun it within the journalistic style and evaluate overall research findings.