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News discourse / Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bednarek, Monika.
- Series:
- Continuum discourse series.
- Continuum discourse series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Journalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, c2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores the role of language and images in newspaper, radio, online and televisionnews. The authors introduce useful frameworks for analysing language, image andthe interaction between the two, and illustrate these with authentic newsstories from around the English-speaking world, ranging from the Oktoberfest toenvironmental disasters to the killing of Osama bin Laden. This analysispersuasively illustrates how events are re-told in the news and madenewsworthy through both language and image. This clearly written andaccessible introduction to news discourse is essential reading for s
- Contents:
- Introduction
- News discourse in context
- News values
- Language in the news
- Images in the news
- Evaluation in the news
- Balancing act: image composition
- The big picture: a case study of stand-alones in print news
- Killing Osama - A case study of online news.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613806062
- 9781282133488
- 1282133489
- 9781441139764
- 1441139761
- OCLC:
- 799766011
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