The language of newspapers /
Reah, Danuta, 1949-
The language of newspapers / Danuta Reah. - x, 126 pages ; 25 cm. - Intertext . - Intertext (London, England). .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121) and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What is a newspaper? -- What is news? -- Do newspapers contain news? -- Who owns the press? -- Who pays for newspapers? -- Should newspapers be impartial? -- Headlines -- What is a headline? -- What are headlines for? -- The language of headlines -- Putting words in: what the headline writer includes -- Taking words out: what the headline writer omits -- Shaking it all about: how the headline writer reorganises language -- Graphological features of headlines -- Headlines as information -- Headlines as opinion manipulators -- Audience -- Who reads the papers? -- How newspapers identify their audience -- The identity of the reader -- The role of the audience -- Editorialising -- Representation of groups: words, words, words -- Linguistic determinism -- What's in a name? -- Naming of groups -- Representations of women -- Sexuality -- Representations of groups: syntax -- Mothers behaving badly: Madonna and Mandy Allwood -- Case study 1: Mandy Allwood -- Deleting the actor -- Case study 2: Madonna -- Facts and possibilities -- Deleting the action -- Modality -- Putting it in order -- Discourse -- Johnny Foreigner: newspapers at war -- Identifying patterns in text -- Lexical cohesion -- Grammatical cohesion -- Reference -- Narrative in newspaper texts -- What is narrative? -- Index of terms -- Index of main texts -- Further reading -- References. Unit 1. Unit 2. Unit 3. Unit 4. Unit 5. Unit 6.
0415146003 9780415146005
97017315
Journalism--Terminology.
Journalists--Language
Newspapers--Language
PE1422 / .R43 1998
070.1720141
The language of newspapers / Danuta Reah. - x, 126 pages ; 25 cm. - Intertext . - Intertext (London, England). .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 119-121) and index.
Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- What is a newspaper? -- What is news? -- Do newspapers contain news? -- Who owns the press? -- Who pays for newspapers? -- Should newspapers be impartial? -- Headlines -- What is a headline? -- What are headlines for? -- The language of headlines -- Putting words in: what the headline writer includes -- Taking words out: what the headline writer omits -- Shaking it all about: how the headline writer reorganises language -- Graphological features of headlines -- Headlines as information -- Headlines as opinion manipulators -- Audience -- Who reads the papers? -- How newspapers identify their audience -- The identity of the reader -- The role of the audience -- Editorialising -- Representation of groups: words, words, words -- Linguistic determinism -- What's in a name? -- Naming of groups -- Representations of women -- Sexuality -- Representations of groups: syntax -- Mothers behaving badly: Madonna and Mandy Allwood -- Case study 1: Mandy Allwood -- Deleting the actor -- Case study 2: Madonna -- Facts and possibilities -- Deleting the action -- Modality -- Putting it in order -- Discourse -- Johnny Foreigner: newspapers at war -- Identifying patterns in text -- Lexical cohesion -- Grammatical cohesion -- Reference -- Narrative in newspaper texts -- What is narrative? -- Index of terms -- Index of main texts -- Further reading -- References. Unit 1. Unit 2. Unit 3. Unit 4. Unit 5. Unit 6.
0415146003 9780415146005
97017315
Journalism--Terminology.
Journalists--Language
Newspapers--Language
PE1422 / .R43 1998
070.1720141