The language of newspapers /
Danuta Reah.
- Second edition.
- x, 126 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm.
- Intertext. .
- Intertext (London, England). .
Previous ed.: 1998.
Includes bibliographical references 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.