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Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Dr. Monika Bednarek
SeriesCorpus and Discourse
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:272
Dimensions(mm): Height 234,Width 156
Category/GenreSemantics
ISBN/Barcode 9781847063342
ClassificationsDewey:401.41
Audience
Professional & Vocational
Undergraduate
Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Publication Date 1 November 2008
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has only recently become the focus of linguistic analysis. This book presents the first corpus-based account of evaluation; one hundred newspaper articles collated to form a 70,000 word comparable corpus, drawn from both tabloid and broadsheet media. The book provides detailed explanations and justifications of the underlying framework of evaluation, as well as demonstrating how this is part of the larger framework of media discourse. Unlike many other linguistic analyses of media language, it makes frequent reference to the production circumstances of newspaper discourse, in particular the so-called 'news values' that shape the creation of the news. Cutting-edge and insightful, Evaluation in Media Discourse will be of interest to academics and researchers in corpus linguistics and media discourse.

Author Biography

Monika Bednarek is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia.

Reviews

The author skillfully combines the quantitative calculations of distrubution of evaluations and qualitative comments on their discourse functions. The author ensured the validity of her choice of what as marked as evaluative also by consulting previous research, native speakers, the Bank of English and corpus-based dictionary. Further strengths of Bednarek's approach are that it is eclectic and does not require commitment to a particular theory of grammar. * Discourse Studies *