Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres - Jonathan Ngai

Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres

Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
230 Seiten
2022
Routledge (Verlag)
978-0-367-71392-8 (ISBN)
168,35 inkl. MwSt
Evaluation across newspaper genres: Hard news stories, editorials and feature articles is the first book-length study of evaluation or stance in three major newspaper genres: hard news stories, editorials and feature articles, the last of which is a Cinderella genre in linguistic studies.
Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles is the first book-length study of evaluation or stance in three major newspaper genres: hard news stories, editorials and feature articles, the last of which is a Cinderella genre in linguistic studies. It offers a fresh approach to exploring the ways in which evaluation or stance contributes to the construction of the three newspaper genres, each with a distinct communicative purpose.

Key features include



using a 900,000-word comparable corpus of newspaper texts arranged by genre and topic domain
drawing on a specially developed framework of analysis with a strong orientation to news values
carrying out structural analysis by creating sub-corpora of different parts of newspaper texts and
adopting a functional approach to evaluation in newspaper discourse

Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres amply demonstrates that evaluation plays a vital and yet dynamic role in the construction of hard news stories, editorials and feature articles by performing a great variety of discourse functions. In doing so, the book also illuminates such important linguistic concepts as specificity/variation and textual colligation. Providing a new and unifying perspective on evaluation as a prime driver of text construction, it will be of interest and use to researchers, teachers and students of English language, applied linguistics and journalism.

Jonathan Ngai is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University.

List of tables. Acknowledgements. 1. Introduction. PART I: Defining, identifying and categorizing evaluation in discourse. 2. Evaluation as a driver of text construction. 3. Towards a new approach to evaluation. PART II: Delving into evaluation in newspaper discourse. 4. Evaluation in hard news stories. 5. Evaluation in editorials. 6. Evaluation in feature articles. 7. Epistemic evaluation in hard news stories, editorials and feature articles. PART III: Summing up. 8. Final considerations. Appendices. References. Index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
Zusatzinfo 55 Tables, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Gewicht 453 g
Themenwelt Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Wörterbuch / Fremdsprachen
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaft
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Journalistik
Sozialwissenschaften Kommunikation / Medien Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-367-71392-6 / 0367713926
ISBN-13 978-0-367-71392-8 / 9780367713928
Zustand Neuware
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