Maria WOJTAK: Analyses of the press genres – the basics of theory and some elements of teaching

In the initial part of the article the author presents her own way of understanding terms like: genre, textual (genre) pattern and some basic variants of the pattern. The supplement of her argument is the short characteristic of different press genres. In the next part of the article there are some issues, which are programme watchwords of the seminar on the press genres analyses. The article finishes with the segment which presents the ways of realization one of the programme watchwords: title of the press utterance – metamorphoses and functions.