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Informationen zum Autor Colleen Cotter is a senior lecturer at the School of Languages, Linguistics and Film at Queen Mary, University of London. She is a former daily news reporter and editor in the USA. Her previous publications include USA Phrasebook: Understanding Americans and Their Culture, Second Edition (2001). Klappentext Provides an insider's view and reveals how language is chosen and shaped into the stories we read and hear. Zusammenfassung Written by a former news reporter and editor! News Talk gives us an insider's view of the media! showing how journalists select and construct their news stories. Colleen Cotter goes behind the scenes! revealing how language is chosen and shaped by news staff into the stories we read and hear. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. The Process and Practice of Everyday Journalism: 1. An interactional and ethnographic approach to news media language; 2. Craft and community: reading the ways of journalists; 3. The ways reporters learn to report and editors learn to edit; Part II. Conceptualizing the News: 4. News values and their significance in text and practice; 5. The 'story meeting': deciding what's fit to print; 6. The interaction-based nature of journalism; Part III. Constructing the Story: Texts and Contexts: 7. Story design and the dictates of the 'lead'; 8. 'Boilerplate': simplifying stories, anchoring text, altering meaning; 9. Style and standardization in news language; Part IV. Decoding the Discourse: 10. The impact of the news process on media discourse; Conclusion and key points; Appendix 1. Story samples; Appendix 2. Outline guide for the analysis of news media language; Appendix 3. SPJ ethics code; Glossary of news and linguistic terms; References.
