News Discourse

Description

This book explores the role of language and images in newspaper, radio, online and television news. The authors introduce useful frameworks for analysing language, image and the interaction between the two, and illustrate these with authentic news stories from around the English-speaking world, ranging from the Oktoberfest to environmental disasters to the killing of Osama bin Laden. This analysis persuasively illustrates how events are re-told in the news and made 'newsworthy' through both language and image. This clearly written and accessible introduction to news discourse is essential reading for students, lecturers, and researchers in Linguistics, Media/Journalism Studies, and Semiotics.

Monika Bednarek is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. Helen Caple is a Lecturer in Media, Journalism and Communications at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

This clearly written book is a must-have for anyone wanting to conduct linguistic or discursive analysis of news texts. Covering a wide range of approaches, the authors combine a succinct overview of key studies and recent developments in the field with their own analyses of written and spoken texts, images and video footage. The breadth of coverage ensures that the book will be of benefit to students and researchers at all levels of experience. -- Dr Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK News Discourse presents a comprehensive view of the features of and main approaches to its subject, and is a timely contribution to news discourse analysis and news writing. It is much to be recommended not only to any student, lecturer or researcher interested in news discourse, but also to news writers, editors and photographers alike -- Peipei Jia and Jingyuan Zhang, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China * Functions of Language, 21:3 * The book is a valuable resource as it provides interesting theoretical and methodological means for analyzing news discourse[...]Overall, this book...is a valuable contribution for the enrichment of scholarship concerning news discourse. -- Paolo Nino Valdez, De La Salle University * Discourse Studies *