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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784837703321

Autore

Bednarek Monika

Titolo

Evaluation in media discourse [[electronic resource] ] : analysis of a newspaper corpus / / Monika Bednarek

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Continuum, c2006

ISBN

1-281-29218-4

9786611292188

1-4411-3916-8

1-84714-282-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Corpus and discourse. Research in corpus and discourse

Disciplina

071/.4

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Journalism - Objectivity - Great Britain

Journalism - Great Britain - Language

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-250) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Reprint permissions; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and typographical conventions; Part One: Evaluation and newspaper discourse; 1. Analysing evaluation in the news; 2. The news story in its context; 3. Delimiting evaluation; 4. A new theory of evaluation; Part Two: Evaluation in the press: a corpus-based analysis; 5. Evaluation in the press: core evaluative parameters; 6. Evaluation in the press: peripheral evaluative parameters; Part Three: Empirical and theoretical issues; 7. Evaluation: broadsheets vs. tabloids; 8. Implications for a new theory of evaluation; Appendices

ReferencesIndex; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has only recently become the focus of linguistic analysis. This book presents the first corpus-based account of evaluation; one hundred newspaper articles collated to form a 70,000 word comparable corpus, drawn from both tabloid and broadsheet media. The book provides detailed explanations and justifications of the underlying framework of evaluation, as well as demonstrating how this is part of the larger



framework of media discourse. Unlike many other linguistic analyses of media language, it makes frequent reference to th