Date: 16-Dec-2008 From: Luke Roberts <lrobertscontinuumbooks.com> Subject: Evaluation and Stance in War News: Haarman, Lombardo (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Evaluation and Stance in War News
Subtitle: A Linguistic Analysis of American, British and Italian television news
reporting of the 2003 Iraqi war
Series Title: Corpus and Discourse
Published: 2008
Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd
http://www.continuumbooks.com
In a world in which advanced communication technologies have made the reporting of disasters and conflicts (also in the form of breaking news) a familiar and 'normalised' activity, the information we present here about television news reporting of the 2003 war in Iraq has implications that go beyond this particular conflict.
Evaluation and Stance in War News functions as a tool kit for the critical evaluation of language in the news, both as raw data in need of interpretation and as carefully packaged products of 'information management' in need of 'unpacking'. The chapters offer an array of theoretical and empirical instruments for revealing, identifying, sifting, weighing and connecting patterns of language use that construct messages. These messages carry with them world views and value systems that can either create an ever wider divide or serve to build bridges between peoples and countries.
"For all those interested in media coverage of the Iraq war this is a most important book. Rich in evidence, analysis and careful argument, it opens up new and better ways of studying the perennial questions of neutrality, bias, and editorializing in television news." - Dr Martin Montgomery, University of Strathclyde, UK
Linguistic Field(s):
Applied Linguistics
Discourse Analysis
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