Evaluation in Media Discourse

Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-8264-9126-8
Verlag: Continnuum-3PL

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 573 g

Reihe: Corpus and Discourse

Sixth book in the Corpus and Discourse series
- Evaluation is a new linguistic theory which is rapidly growing in popularity
- Media discourse is a popular area of research in linguistics

Evaluation in Media Discourse presents the first book-length corpus-based account of evaluation, using a corpus of one hundred newspaper articles comprising a 70,000 word comparable corpus, drawn from both tabloid and broadsheet media. This book offers a new way forward for analysing the expression of opinion, by proposing an innovative framework of evaluation that can be applied to different types of discourse. It provides detailed explanations and justifications of this framework, as well as demonstrating how this is part of the larger framework of media discourse. Illustrated with many authentic examples from news discourse, and integrating competing approaches to evaluation, the book underlines the importance of context for the functions of evaluation. It also 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, this monograph will be of interest to academics and researchers in the fields of (critical) discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and media language. It is also suitable for students taking courses in those areas.

Zielgruppe

Academics

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bednarek, Monika

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Semantik & Pragmatik
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Dr Monika Bednarek is Lecturer in English Linguistics at the University of Augsburg, Germany.