Roger Fowler

Language in the News (eBook, ePUB)

Discourse and Ideology in the Press

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of `hard facts`. In an incisive study of both the quality and the popular press, Roger Fowler challenges this perception, arguing that news is a practice, a product of the social and political world on which it reports. Writing from the perspective of critical linguistics, Fowler examines the crucial role of language in mediating reality. Starting with a general account of news values and the processes of selection and transformation which go to make up the news, Fowler goes on to consider newspaper representations of gender, power, authority and law and order. He discusses stereotyping, terms of abuse and endearment, the editorial voice and the formation of consensus. Fowler's analysis takes in some of the major news stories of the Thatcher decade - the American bombing of Libya in 1986, the salmonella-in-eggs affair, the problems of the National Health Service and the controversy of youth and contraception.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136095726
• Artikelnr.: 39704719

Autorenporträt

Roger Fowler

Inhaltsangabe

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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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

Rezensionen

'At last, a compact and accessible text providing A-level students with hands-on experienc of analysing newsprint.' - The A-Level English Magazine