Evaluation and Stance in War News
A Linguistic Analysis of American, British and Italian television news reporting of the 2003 Iraqi war
Published on 22. December 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
226 pages
978-1-4411-8242-5 (ISBN)
Description
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 theoretical and empirical instruments for revealing, identifying, sifting, weighing and connecting patterns of language use that construct messages. These messages carry with them world views and value systems that can either create an ever wider divide or serve to build bridges between peoples and countries.
Reviews / Votes
"For all those interested in media coverage of the Iraq war this is a most important book - one that casts new light on how we understand and study bias in the news. For the first time we have a close, rigorous, systematic and comparative account of British, U.S and Italian television news of the war through the prism of a corpus linguistic approach to its discourse. Rich in evidence, analysis and careful argument, it opens up new and better ways of studying the perennial questions of neutrality, bias, and editorialising in television news." - Dr Martin Montgomery, University of Strathclyde, UKMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
12
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 12 mm
Weight
351 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-8242-5 (9781441182425)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Louann Haarman | Linda Lombardo
Evaluation and Stance in War News
A Linguistic Analysis of American, British and Italian Television News Reporting of the 2003 Iraqi War
E-Book
10/2011
1st Edition
Bloomsbury Continuum
€43.49
Available for download
Louann Haarman | Linda Lombardo
Evaluation and Stance in War News
A Linguistic Analysis of American, British and Italian Television News Reporting of the 2003 Iraqi War
E-Book
12/2008
1st Edition
Continuum Publishing Corporation
€42.99
Available for download
Persons
Linda Lombardo is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Faculty of Political Science, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. Louann Haarman is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna, Italy.
Content
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.