News Discourse (Bloomsbury Classics in Linguistics)

by Monika Bednarek (Author), HelenCaple (Author)

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2018
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Now reissued and retypeset, this canonical 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 retold 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 and journalism studies and semiotics.

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Now reissued and retypeset, this canonical 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 retold 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 and journalism studies and semiotics.

$31.71

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 18 Oct 2018
ISBN 10: 1350063711
ISBN 13: 9781350063716
Book Overview: This book explores the role of language and images in newspaper, radio, online and television news.

Author Bio

Monika Bednarek is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Sydney, Australia. Helen Caple is Senior Lecturer in Media, Journalism and Communications at the University of New South Wales, Australia.