Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of hard facts. In this study of the British press, Roger Fowler challenges this perception, arguing that news and the language it employs is a phenomenon created by social and political factors.
Language in the News Zusammenfassung
Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press Roger Fowler
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Language in the News Bewertungen
"Fowler approaches a deconstruction of newswriting with considerable scholarly detachment. . . . Considering the complexity of the ideas introduced, the book is well written and accessible . . . .." -"Choice
Über Roger Fowler
Roger Fowler
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements Xl 1 Introduction: the importance of language in the news 1 2 The social construction of news 10 Bias or representation 10 News values 12 Stereotypes 17 Social and economic Jactors in news selection 19 3 Language and representation 25 The linguistic background 26 Anthropological linguistics: language, culture and thought 28 Functional linguistics, variation, social semiotic 32 Social semiotic in news discourse: an example 38 Discourse and the reader 41 4 Conversation and consensus 46 The 'public idiom' and the Jormation oj consensus 46 Consensus and contradiction 48 Categorization and conversation 54 Oral models in the Press 59 5 Analytic tools: critical linguistics 66 Linguistic tools 68 Transitivity 70 Some syntactic transformations oj the clause 76 Lexical structure 80 Interpersonal elements: modality 85 Interpersonal elements: speech acts 87 Copyrighted Material x Contents 6 Discrimination in discourse: gender and power 91 Personalization 91 Discrimination 93 Discrimination and power 105 7 Terms of abuse and of endearment 110 Rambo and the mad dog 112 Postscript 119 8 Attitudes to power 120 Ideological roles of the Press 120 The dominance of the status quo: hospital patients as powerless 124 ~w~o. 1~ 9 A Press scare: the salmonella-in-eggs affair 146 Press hysteria 146 Participants 151 Chronology 153 Some aspects of hysterical style 160 10 The salmonella-in-eggs affair: Pandora's box 170 What am I? 170 Pandora's box: generating and equating new instances 174 'What am P' revisited 178 Closing Pandora's box: what are you going to do about ~? 181 Blame the housewife 186 The persistence of paradigms 202 11 Leading the people: editorial authority 208 12 Conclusion: prospects for critical news analysis 222 Notes 235 Index
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Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press Roger Fowler
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