Date: 25-Nov-2008 From: Luke Roberts <lrobertscontinuumbooks.com> Subject: Evaluation in Media Discourse: Bednarek E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Evaluation in Media Discourse
Subtitle: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus
Series Title: Corpus and Discourse
Published: 2008
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
http://www.continuumbooks.com
Note: This is the paperback edition of a previously announced book.
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.
Linguistic Field(s):
Discourse Analysis
Text/Corpus Linguistics
linguistlist.org>
E-mail this message to a friend
