Analysing Newspapers provides students of journalism, communication studies and discourse analysis with a systematic, discourse-based framework for the critical study of newspaper reporting. Assuming no prior knowledge of discursive theory, the book explores how the language of journalism works--its power, its function and its effects. Using wide-ranging and highly topical case studies and examples, students are shown discourse analysis of journalism "in action". Identifying and exploring key linguistic concepts and tools, Richardson provides a detailed introduction to a practical model of critical discourse analysis which students will be able to apply to their own newspaper research.
xi, 268 p.
23 cm.
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Introduction: Newspaper Discourse --
Analysing Newspapers: Context, Text and Consequence --
Analysing Texts: Some Concepts and Tools of Linguistic Analysis --
Discursive Practices: Producing Print Journalism --
Social Practices: Journalism and the Material World --
Applying Discourse Analysis: Argumentation and Letters to the Editor --
Critical Discourse Analysis: War Reporting.