The contributions in this collection examine media discourse through widely differing approaches. However, in spite of their seeming differences, they all share the quality of being concerned with news discourse and strive to find new ways of analyzing news discourse. A majority of these papers are concerned exclusively with linguistic discourse analysis, while some also analyze both linguistic and non-linguistic signs, and one exclusively examines non-linguistic signification. The subjects covered include: media representations of NATO's 1999 military intervention in ex-Yugoslavia * how the Japanese newspaper Ashi argued its editorial stance toward the US attack on Afghanistan * how risk was construed in a corpus of Newsweek articles in its dealing with September 11 * a comparative case study of British and Irish current affairs coverage in the immediate aftermath of September 11 * a discussion of the role played by the Austrian mass media in constructing the image of Austria as being the first victim of Nazi Germany * a search for dialogic, polyphonic contributions in fiction and non-fiction in reflections on the political violence in Italy of the 1970s * the relationship between the historical space of the objective world and the world created in discourse.

Text in French. Le present volume contient des articles qui presentent une variete d'approches en analyse du discours et revelent de nouvelles reflexions encourageant la comprehension de la construction d'images publiques et d'ideologies impliquees dans les textes mediatiques. Les discours de la presse imprimee, de la radio, de la tele-vision et de l'Internet composent le point de depart des analyses presentees. Meme si les contributions se differencient au premier abord, donnant la preponderance aux notions telles que la polyphonie, la rhetorique, l'argumentation, l'intertextualite et la metaphore, les auteurs se reunissent d'un aspect qui se montre central pour les analyses du discours des textes mediatiques: les etudes de genre tant dans les discours oraux que dans les discours ecrits. Dans son introduction Professeur Kerbrat-Orecchioni souligne la diversite methodologique du champ de l'analyse du discours, et en ce qui concerne plus precisement les discours mediatiques, elle envisage la problematique des genres dans une perspective a la fois classique, et "revisitee" a la lumiere des theories recentes en analyse des discours et des interactions verbales.