Evaluation and Stance in War News - A Linguistic Analysis of American, British Italian television news

Zusammenfassung Using the 2003 war in Iraq as an illustrative tool for highlighting the impact which advances in communication systems have had on message relays, this book enables a critical evaluation of the way language is used in the news. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction, Haarman and Lombardo 1. Mark up and the narrative structure of TV news, Marchi (University of Siena and Cardiff University) and Venuti (University of Naples Frederico II, Italy) 2. The news presenter as socio-cultural construct, Lombardo (Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy) 3. The news presenter and the TV audience: a comparative perspective of the use of we and you , Ferrarotti (University of Rome, Italy) 4. Wide angles and narrow views: how the Iraq conflict was reported by embeds and other war zone reporters, Clark (University of Bologna, Italy) 5. Decoding codas: evaluation in reporter and correspondent news talk, Haarman (University of Bologna, Italy) 6. ‘If it wasn't rolling, it never happened': the role of visual elements in TV news, Lipson (University of Bologna, Italy) 7. News is reporting what was said: techniques and patterns of attribution, Piazza (University of Sussex, UK) Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Louann Haarman, Louann (EDT)/ Lombardo Haarman, Linda Lombardo
• Assisted by: Louann Haarman (Editor), Haarman Louann (Editor), Linda Lombardo (Editor), Michaela Mahlberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.12.2008
• EAN: 9781847061768
• ISBN: 978-1-84706-176-8
• No. of pages: 226
• Series: Corpus and Discourse; Corpus and Discourse
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Media Studies, HISTORY / Military / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Semantics, Iraq, Modern warfare, TV & society, Media studies: TV and society, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Early 21st century c 2000 to c 2050, Iraq War, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / General