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Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus (Corpus and Discourse)

By Monika Bednarek

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
082649126X, 9780826491268, 9781847142825
Open Library ID
OL17633619M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9734967 bytes)
Pages
272\270
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

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 0news. Cutting-edge and insightful, Evaluation in Media Discourse will be of interest to academics and researchers in corpus linguistics and media discourse.

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