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Language in the News : Discourse and Ideology in the Press.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 1991Copyright date: ©1991Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781136095641
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302.23/22/0941
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Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Introduction: the importance of language in the news -- 2: The social construction of news -- Bias or representation -- News values -- Stereotypes -- Social and economic factors in news selection -- 3: Language and representation -- The linguistic background -- Anthropologial linguistics: language culture and thought -- Functional linguistics, variation, social semiotic -- Social semiotic in news discourse: an example -- Discourse and the reader -- 4: Conversation and consensus -- The 'public idiom' and the formation of consensus -- Consensus and contradiction -- Categorization and conversation -- Oral models in the Press -- 5: Analytic tools: critical linguistics -- Linguistic tools -- Transitivity -- Some syntactic transformations of the clause -- Lexical structure -- Interpersonal elements: modality -- Interpersonal elements: speech acts -- 6: Discrimination in discourse: gender and power -- Personalization -- Discrimination -- Discrimination and power -- 7: Terms of abuse and of endearment -- Rambo and the mad dog -- Postscript -- 8: Attitudes to power -- Ideologial roles of the Press -- The dominance of the status quo: hospital patients as powerless -- Law and order -- 9: A Press scare: the salmonella-in-eggs affair -- Press hysteria -- Participants -- Chronology -- Some aspects of hysterical style -- 10: The salmonella-in-eggs affair: Pandora's box -- What am I? -- Pandora's box: generating and equating new instances -- 'What am I?' revisited -- Closing pandora's box: what are you going to do about it? -- Blame the housewife -- The persistence of paradigms -- 11: Leading the people: editorial authority -- 12: Conclusion: prospects for critical news analysis -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of h̀ard facts̀. In a study of the British press, Roger Fowler challenges this perception, arguing that news is a practice, constructed by the social and political world.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1: Introduction: the importance of language in the news -- 2: The social construction of news -- Bias or representation -- News values -- Stereotypes -- Social and economic factors in news selection -- 3: Language and representation -- The linguistic background -- Anthropologial linguistics: language culture and thought -- Functional linguistics, variation, social semiotic -- Social semiotic in news discourse: an example -- Discourse and the reader -- 4: Conversation and consensus -- The 'public idiom' and the formation of consensus -- Consensus and contradiction -- Categorization and conversation -- Oral models in the Press -- 5: Analytic tools: critical linguistics -- Linguistic tools -- Transitivity -- Some syntactic transformations of the clause -- Lexical structure -- Interpersonal elements: modality -- Interpersonal elements: speech acts -- 6: Discrimination in discourse: gender and power -- Personalization -- Discrimination -- Discrimination and power -- 7: Terms of abuse and of endearment -- Rambo and the mad dog -- Postscript -- 8: Attitudes to power -- Ideologial roles of the Press -- The dominance of the status quo: hospital patients as powerless -- Law and order -- 9: A Press scare: the salmonella-in-eggs affair -- Press hysteria -- Participants -- Chronology -- Some aspects of hysterical style -- 10: The salmonella-in-eggs affair: Pandora's box -- What am I? -- Pandora's box: generating and equating new instances -- 'What am I?' revisited -- Closing pandora's box: what are you going to do about it? -- Blame the housewife -- The persistence of paradigms -- 11: Leading the people: editorial authority -- 12: Conclusion: prospects for critical news analysis -- Notes -- Index.

Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of h̀ard facts̀. In a study of the British press, Roger Fowler challenges this perception, arguing that news is a practice, constructed by the social and political world.

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