Evaluation in media discourse : analysis of a newspaper corpus
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Evaluation in media discourse : analysis of a newspaper corpus
（Corpus and discourse / series editors, Wolfgang Teubert and Michaela Mahlberg, . Research in corpus and discourse）
Continuum, 2006
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index
"This book has evolved from my PhD thesis developed at the University of Augsburg, Germany (Bednarek 2004)"--P. [xiii]
Description and Table of Contents
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: hbk ISBN 9780826491268
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Part One: Evaluation and newspaper discourse
- 1. Analysing evaluation in the news
- 2. The news story in its context
- 3. Delimiting evaluation
- 4. A new theory of evaluation
- Part Two: Evaluation in the press: a corpus-based analysis
- 5. Evaluation in the press: core evaluative parameters
- 6. Evaluation in the press: peripheral evaluative parameters
- Part Three: Empirical and theoretical issues
- 7. Evaluation: broadsheets vs. tabloids
- 8. Implications for a new theory of evaluation
- Appendices
- Reference.
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9781847063342
Description
A cutting-edge, new in paperback title which presents the first corpus-based account of evaluation. 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.The Editorial Board includes: Paul Baker (Lancaster), Frantisek Cermak (Prague), Susan Conrad (Portland), Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster), Dominique Maingueneau (Paris XII), Christian Mair (Freiburg), Alan Partington (Bologna), Elena Tognini-Bonelli (Lecce and TWC), Ruth Wodak (Lancaster and Vienna), and Feng Zhiwei (Beijing).
Corpus linguistics provides the methodology to extract meaning from texts. Taking as its starting point the fact that language is not a mirror of reality but lets us share what we know, believe and think about reality, it focuses on language as a social phenomenon, and makes visible the attitudes and beliefs expressed by the members of a discourse community. Consisting of both spoken and written language, discourse always has historical, social, functional, and regional dimensions. Discourse can be monolingual or multilingual, interconnected by translations. Discourse is where language and social studies meet.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- I. Evaluation and newspaper discourse
- 1. Analysing evaluation in the news
- 2. The news story in its context
- 3. Delimiting evaluation
- 4. A new theory of evaluation
- II. Evaluation in the press: a corpus-based analysis
- 5. Evaluation in the press: a corpus-based pragmatic analysis
- III. Empirical and theoretical issues
- 6. Evaluation: broadsheets vs. tabloids
- 7. Implications for a new theory of evaluation
- References
- Appendices.
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