A cutting-edge, new in paperback title which presents
the first corpus-based account of evaluation. 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.The Editorial Board includes: Paul Baker
(Lancaster), Frantisek Cermak (Prague), Susan Conrad
(Portland), Geoffrey Leech (Lancaster), Dominique
Maingueneau (Paris XII), Christian Mair (Freiburg), Alan
Partington (Bologna), Elena Tognini-Bonelli (Lecce and
TWC), Ruth Wodak (Lancaster and Vienna), and Feng Zhiwei
(Beijing).Corpus linguistics provides the methodology to
extract meaning from texts. Taking as its starting point
the fact that language is not a mirror of reality but
lets us share what we know, believe and think about
reality, it focuses on language as a social phenomenon,
and makes visible the attitudes and beliefs expressed by
the members of a discourse community. Consisting of both
spoken and written language, discourse always has
historical, social, functional, and regional dimensions.
Discourse can be monolingual or multilingual,
interconnected by translations. Discourse is where
language and social studies meet. |
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