Approaches to Media Discourse

This collection brings together in one volume current leading approaches to the study of media discourse. Its focus is on the media text (spoken, written or visual), but it also addresses issues of the production and reception of media discourse. Chapters provide a brief outline of the authors approach to media discourse and then demonstrate how the approach works in practice by close analysis of sample texts. The applicability of the frameworks is discussed, and guidelines are offered on how to use them.

Allan Bell is affiliated as a Senior Research Fellow to the Linguistics Programme, Department of English, University of Auckland. He is author of The Language of News Media (Blackwell Publishers 1991). He is co-founder and editor of the Journal of Sociolinguistics, also published by Blackwell.

Peter Garrett is Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication Research, University of Wales, Cardiff. He has published articles in many journals and is editor of the journal Language Awareness. Peter Garret is the co-editor of Language Awareness in the Classroom (1991).

Preface
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Media and Discourse: A Critical Overview
Opinions and Ideologies in the Press
The Discourse Structure of News Stories
News from Nowhere: Televisual News Discourse and the Construction of Hegemony
Political Discourse in the Media: An Analytical Framework
Conversation Analysis: Neutralism in British News Interviews
Front Pages: (The Critical) Analysis of Newspaper Layout
Signs and Wonders: Interpreting the Economy through Television
Media-Language-World
References
Index
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