Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 253 pages) |
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Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse |
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Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse.
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Contents |
Contents; Reprint permissions; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and typographical conventions; 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 |
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ReferencesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-250) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Journalism -- Objectivity -- Great Britain
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Journalism -- Great Britain -- Language
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Discourse analysis
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
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Discourse analysis
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Journalism -- Language
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Journalism -- Objectivity
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Meningen.
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Journalistiek proza.
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Great Britain
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781847142825 |
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1847142826 |
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9781441139160 |
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1441139168 |
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1281292184 |
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9781281292186 |
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9781847063342 |
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1847063349 |
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