News Discourse: How News Organizations Create 'newsworthiness' (Continuum Discourse #45)

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Synopsis
This book exploresthe role of language and images in newspaper, radio, online and televisionnews. The authors introduce useful frameworks for analysing language, image andthe interaction between the two, and illustrate these with authentic newsstories from around the English-speaking world, ranging from the Oktoberfest toenvironmental disasters to the killing of Osama bin Laden. This analysispersuasively illustrates how events are re-told in the news and made'newsworthy' through both language and image. This clearly written andaccessible introduction to news discourse is essential reading for students,lecturers, and researchers in Linguistics, Media/Journalism Studies, andSemiotics.
Copyright:
2012

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Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9781441184207
Related ISBNs:
9781441120908
Publisher:
Bloomsbury Publishing
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Copyrighted By:
Monika Bednarek, Helen Caple
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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