1st Edition

Language and Journalism

Edited By John Richardson Copyright 2010
168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

168 Pages
by Routledge

This book is an indispensable "cutting edge" book for students and researchers of journalism studies seeking a text that illustrates and applies a range of linguistic and discourse-analytic approaches to the analysis of journalism. While the form, function and politics of the language of journalism have attracted scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines, too often this analysis has... Read more

1. Language and Journalism: An expanding research agenda  John E. Richardson  2. Media(ted) Discourse and Society: Rethinking the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis  Anabela Carvalho  3. "Upscale" News Audiences and the Transformation of Labour News  Christopher R. Martin  4. Language Development, Knowledge and Use Among Journalists of European Minority Language Media  Inaki Zabaleta, Nicolas Xamardo, Arantza Gutierrez, Santi Urrutia, and Itxaso Fernandez  5. "Objectivity" and "Hard News" Reporting Across Cultures: Comparing the news report in English, French, Japanese and Indonesian journalism  Elizabeth A. Thomson, Peter R. R. White, and Philip Kitley  6. Unnamed Sources as Rhetorical Constructs in News Agency Reports  Maija Stenvall  7. Branding Newspapers: Visual texts as social practice  David Machin and Sarah Niblock  8. The Discourse of the Broadcast News Interview: A typology  Martin Montgomery  9. The BBC’s Discursive Strategy and Practices vis-a-vis the Palestinian Conflict  Leon Barkho

Biography

John E. Richardson is a lecturer in the Department of Social Sciences, Loughborough University. His research interests include structured social inequalities, racism in journalism, readers’ letters, (critical) discourse analysis and argumentation. His most recent book is Analysing Newspapers: An approach from critical discourse analysis (2007, Palgrave).