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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822931303321

Titolo

Evaluation and stance in war news : a linguistic analysis of American, British and Italian television news reporting of the 2003 Iraqi war / / edited by Louann Haarman and Linda Lombardo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Continuum, c2009

ISBN

1-282-87564-7

9786612875649

1-4411-6954-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 pages)

Collana

Corpus and Discourse

Altri autori (Persone)

HaarmanLouann

LombardoLinda

Disciplina

302.2345014

Soggetti

Discourse analysis

Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Mass media and the war

Mass media and language - Great Britain

Mass media and language - Italy

Mass media and language - United States

Television broadcasting of news - Great Britain

Television broadcasting of news - Italy

Television broadcasting of news - United States

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents: Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction; 1. Mark-up and the narrative structure of television news; 2. The news presenter as socio-cultural construct; 3. The news presenter and the television audience: a comparative perspective of the use of we and you; 4. Wide angles and narrow views: the Iraq conflict in embed and other war zone reports; 5. Decoding codas: evaluation in reporter and correspondent news talk; 6. 'If it wasn't rolling, it never happened': the role of visual elements in television news; 7. News is reporting what was said: techniques and patterns of attribution

Sommario/riassunto

Summary: In a world in which advanced communication technologies have made the reporting of disasters and conflicts (also in the form of



breaking news) a familiar and 'normalised' activity, the information we present here about television news reporting of the 2003 war in Iraq has implications that go beyond this particular conflict. Evaluation and Stance in War News functions as a tool kit for the critical evaluation of language in the news, both as raw data in need of interpretation and as carefully packaged products of 'information management' in need of 'unpacking'. The chapters offer an array of t