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The language of newspapers / Danuta Reah.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Intertext (London, England)Publisher: London : Routledge, 2002Edition: Second editionDescription: x, 126 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415278058
  • 9780415278058
  • 041527804X
  • 9780415278041
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.1720141 23
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- Unit 1. Introduction -- What is a newspaper? -- What is news? -- Do newspapers contain news? -- Who owns the press? -- Who pays for newspapers? -- Should newspapers be impartial? -- Unit 2. 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 -- Unit 3. Audience -- Who reads the papers? -- How newspapers identify their audience -- The identity of the reader -- The role of the audience -- Editorialising -- Unit 4. Representation of groups: words, words, words -- Linguistic determinism -- What's in a name? -- Naming of groups -- Representations of women -- Sexuality -- Unit 5. 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 -- Unit 6. 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.
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Previous ed.: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Unit 1. Introduction -- What is a newspaper? -- What is news? -- Do newspapers contain news? -- Who owns the press? -- Who pays for newspapers? -- Should newspapers be impartial? -- Unit 2. 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 -- Unit 3. Audience -- Who reads the papers? -- How newspapers identify their audience -- The identity of the reader -- The role of the audience -- Editorialising -- Unit 4. Representation of groups: words, words, words -- Linguistic determinism -- What's in a name? -- Naming of groups -- Representations of women -- Sexuality -- Unit 5. 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 -- Unit 6. 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.

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