Evaluation in Media Discourse Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus by Monika Bednarek

Evaluation in Media Discourse Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus by Monika Bednarek

By: Monika Bednarek

Publisher: Continuum

Print ISBN: 9781847063342, 1847063349

eText ISBN: 9781847142825, 1847142826

Edition: 1st

Copyright year: 2006

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 the production circumstances of newspaper discourse, in particular the so-called ‘news values’ that shape the creation of the news. Cutting-edge and insightful, Evaluation in Media Discourse will be of interest to academics and researchers in corpus linguistics and media discourse.