Analysing Newspapers An Approach from

Analysing Newspapers provides students of journalism, communication studies and discourse analysis with a systematic, discourse-based framework for the critical study of newspaper reporting. Assuming no prior knowledge of discursive theory, the book explores how the language of journalism works--its power, its function and its effects. Using wide-ranging and highly topical case studies and examples, students are shown discourse analysis of journalism "in action". Identifying and exploring key linguistic concepts and tools, Richardson provides a detailed introduction to a practical model of critical discourse analysis which students will be able to apply to their own newspaper research.

JOHN E. RICHARDSON is Lecturer in the Department of Journalism Studies at University of Sheffield.

List of Tables and Figures

ix

Acknowledgements

x

Introduction: Newspaper Discourse

1

(14)

This book's view of society

2

(4)

This book's view of journalism

6

(4)

This book's view of language

10

(5)

Analysing Newspapers: Context, Text and Consequence

15

(31)

Problems in studying `content'

15

(6)

Discourse Analysis

21

(5)

Critical Discourse Analysis

26

(11)

Fairclough's method of critical discourse analysis

37

(7)

Summary

44

(2)

Analysing Texts: Some Concepts and Tools of Linguistic Analysis

46

(29)

Introduction: levels of analysis

46

(1)

Lexical analysis: the choice and meaning of words

47

(7)

Sentence construction: syntax and transitivity

54

(5)

Sentence construction: modality

59

(3)

Presupposition

62

(2)

Rhetorical tropes

64

(7)

Narrative

71

(4)

Discursive Practices: Producing Print Journalism

75

(39)

Introduction: what are discursive practices?

75

(2)

Markets or citizens? Conceptualising the audience

77

(5)

Professional practices

82

(7)

Organisational practices: writing for the audience

89

(6)

Linguistic style

95

(5)

Intertextuality

100

(6)

Using texts: press agency copy

106

(6)

Summary

112

(2)

Social Practices: Journalism and the Material World

114

(35)

Introduction

114

(2)

Economic practices and journalistic discourse: newspaper campaigns

116

(11)

Political practices and journalistic discourse: reporting Algeria

127

(7)

Ideological practices and journalistic discourse

134

(13)

Summary

147

(2)

Applying Discourse Analysis: Argumentation and Letters to the Editor

149

(29)

Introduction

149

(2)

`Getting in': the selection of letters

151

(4)

Argumentation

155

(1)

Aristotle's Rhetoric

156

(9)

Rules of reasonableness

165

(6)

Kilroy-Silk and anti-Arab racism

171

(5)

Summary

176

(2)

Critical Discourse Analysis: War Reporting

178

(42)

Introduction

178

(2)

Social and discursive practices: propaganda and journalism

180

(6)

Manufacturing consent: modes of proof in the `pre-war' period

186

(7)

Discursive practices: shepherding journalists

193

(4)

Reporting the invasion: action and agency in headlines

197

(12)

Pro patria mori: heroes, villains and the marshalling of morality

209

(9)

Summary

218

(2)

Conclusion

220

(6)

Notes

226

(10)

Glossary

236

(9)

References

245

(16)

Index

261

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