Evaluation and stance in war news
Subtitle: a linguistic analysis of American, British and Italian television news reporting of the 2003 Iraqi war
By: edited by Louann Haarman, Linda Lombardo
Series: Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse; Corpus and discourse
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9781847061768; 9781441182425
Subjects: Fernsehsendung; Berichterstattung; Television broadcasting of news; Sprache; Mass media and the war; Nachrichtensendung; Mass media and language; Discourse analysis; Iraq War, 2003-2011; Irakkrieg
Description: "Evaluation and Stance in War News functions as a tool kit for the critical evaluation of language in the news, both as raw data in need of interpretation and as carefully packaged products of 'information management' in need of 'unpacking'. The chapters offer an array of theoretical and empirical instruments for revealing, identifying, sifting, weighing and connecting patterns of language use that construct messages. These messages carry with them world views and value systems that can either create an ever wider divide or serve to build bridges between peoples and countries."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [195]-209) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction  -- Louann Haarman and Linda Lombardo; title: Mark-up and the narrative structure of television news  -- Anna Marchi and Marco Venuti; title: The news presenter as socio-cultural construct  -- Linda Lombardo; title: The news presenter and the television audience: a comparative perspective of the use of we and you  -- Laura Ferrarotti; title: Wide angles and narrow views: the Iraq conflict in embed and other war zone reports  -- Caroline Clark; title: Decoding codas: evaluation in reporter and correspondent news talk  -- Louann Haarman; title: 'If it wasn't rolling, it never happened': the role of visual elements in television news  -- Maxine Lipson; title: News is reporting what was said: techniques and patterns of attribution -- Roberta Piazza.