1st Edition
News Analysis Case Studies of international and National News in the Press
First Published in 1987. This book presents a series of case studies that illustrate the structures of national and international news in the press. It first summarizes our discourse analytical theory of the processes and structures of news reports as it has been developed in the last five years.
Biography
Professor Teun A Van Dijk, (University of Amsterdam)
"The European approach and viewpoint of this study is an interesting balance to the more usual American studies."
—Communication Booknotes"Drawing on a rich background of linguistics, literary theory, and cognitive psychology, van Dijk has made a substantial contribution to the advancement of the field ... the two books [News as Discourse and News Analysis] constitute a major contribution to communication research, documenting the state of the art of discourse analysis. The form of presentation is explicit and reflexive..."
—Journal of Communication
