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 Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. Helen Caple is a Senior 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 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 * News Discourse is a valuable addition to the Bloomsbury Discourse series; it covers an interesting topic in a novel way that will be of interest to a wide readership. More importantly, the volume does so in a way that is timely both in the modalities under consideration and the data used. Bednarek and Caple's book incorporates an extensive range of material and examines the crucial interplay of text and image in contemporary news discourse. The book will be useful to researchers and students interested in linguistic, media, or discursive approaches to analysing news texts and images. -- Chrystie Myketiak, Queen Mary, University of London * The Linguist *