Approaches to Media Discourse

Allan Bell is affiliated as a Senior Research Fellow to the Linguistics Programme, Department of English, University of Auckland. He is author of The Language of News Media (Blackwell Publishers 1991). He is co-founder and editor of the Journal of Sociolinguistics, also published by Blackwell. Peter Garrett is Senior Lecturer in Language and Communication Research, University of Wales, Cardiff. He has published articles in many journals and is editor of the journal Language Awareness. Peter Garret is the co-editor of Language Awareness in the Classroom (1991).

Preface. Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgements.

Chapter 1. Media and Discourse: A Critical Overview: Peter Garrett and Allan Bell.

Chapter 2. Opinions and Ideologies in the Press: Teun A. van Dijk.

Chapter 3. The Discourse Structure of News Stories: Allan Bell.

Chapter 4. News from Nowhere: Televisual News Discourse and the Construction of Hegemony: Stuart Allan.

Chapter 5. Political Discourse in the Media: An Analytical Framework: Norman Fairclough.

Chapter 6. Conversation Analysis: Neutralism in British News Interviews: David Greatbatch.

Chapter 7. Front Pages: (The Critical) Analysis of Newspaper Layout: Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen.

Chapter8. Signs and Wonders: Interpreting the Economy through Television: Kay Richardson.

Chapter 9. Media-Language-World: Paddy Scannel.

References.

Index.