LINGUIST List 17.1358

Wed May 03 2006

Books: Discourse Analysis/Sociolinguistics: Conboy

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Message 1: Tabloid Britain: Conboy
Date: 03-May-2006
From: Liz Levine <elizabeth.levinetaylorandfrancis.com>
Subject: Tabloid Britain: Conboy


Title: Tabloid Britain Subtitle: Constructing A Community Through Language Published: 2005 Publisher: Routledge (Taylor and Francis)
                http://www.routledge.com/

Author: Martin Conboy Hardback: ISBN: 0415355524 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 105.00
Paperback: ISBN: 0415355532 Pages: 240 Price: U.K. £ 33.95
Abstract:

From Tony Blair and his cabinet, to celebrity chefs and footballers, theBritish tabloids provide sensational coverage of the private and publiclives of political figures and celebrities alike, and help shape thenation's perceptions of people and events. These often derided newspapersare important and influential factors in the mediation of everyday life inBritain today.

This book takes four popular tabloid newspapers and shows that they use avariety of linguistic strategies to depict an image of contemporaryBritain; by examining how a community of readers is woven into the languageof the newspapers in an impersonation of the readers it seeks to attract.

Including examples taken from a month long study - a month in the country -Martin Conboy considers how this imaginary community of the British nationis drawn through themes such as outsiders, insiders, women, celebrity,history and politics. The work also demonstrates how the tabloidsconstitute a highly successful modern variation of journalism which hasspread its influence beyond the boundaries of print and triggered muchdebate about the related phenomenon of 'tabloidization.'

This critical study of the newspapers' version of popular rhetoric will beof interest to students and researchers of English, Media andCommunication, as well as the general reader.

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis                             Sociolinguistics
Written In: English (eng )

See this book announcement on our website: http://linguistlist.org/get-book.html?BookID=19458

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