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>