Language and Journalism

<p>This book is an indispensable "cutting edge" book for students and researchers of journalism studies seeking a text that illustrates and applies a range of linguistic and discourse-analytic approaches to the analysis of journalism. While the form, function and politics of the language of journalism have attracted scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines, too often this analysis has reduced the work of journalists to text-characteristics alone. In contrast, this collection is united by the principle that journalistic discourse is always socially situated and the result of a series of processes – produced by journalists in accordance with particular production techniques and in specific institutional settings – and as such, analysis requires more than the methods offered by linguists.</p><p>The contributors to this book draw on a range of the most prominent theoretical and methodological approaches to media discourse – including Conversation Analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, the APPRAISAL framework, Multi-modal Analysis and Rhetoric – in making sense of the language of newspapers (national, local and minority press), television and online journalism. Written in an engaging style by distinguished academic authorities, this book provides a state-of-the-art review of the subject.</p><p>This book was published as a special issue of <em>Journalism Studies</em>.</p> <p>1. Language and Journalism: An expanding research agenda <em>John E. Richardson </em>2. Media(ted) Discourse and Society: Rethinking the framework of Critical Discourse Analysis <em>Anabela Carvalho </em>3. "Upscale" News Audiences and the Transformation of Labour News <em>Christopher R. Martin </em>4. Language Development, Knowledge and Use Among Journalists of European Minority Language Media <em>Inaki Zabaleta</em>, <em>Nicolas Xamardo</em>, <em>Arantza Gutierrez</em>, <em>Santi Urrutia</em>, and <em>Itxaso Fernandez </em>5. "Objectivity" and "Hard News" Reporting Across Cultures: Comparing the news report in English, French, Japanese and Indonesian journalism <em>Elizabeth A. Thomson</em>, <em>Peter R. R. White</em>, and <em>Philip Kitley </em>6. Unnamed Sources as Rhetorical Constructs in News Agency Reports <em>Maija Stenvall </em>7. Branding Newspapers: Visual texts as social practice <em>David Machin</em> and <em>Sarah Niblock </em>8. The Discourse of the Broadcast News Interview: A typology <em>Martin Montgomery </em>9. The BBC’s Discursive Strategy and Practices vis-a-vis the Palestinian Conflict <em>Leon Barkho</em></p>