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The high-pressured, fast-paced environment of television production
leaves little time for producers to reflect on how the
potentialities of texts and images will be interpreted outside of
the immediate broadcast imperatives. This volume brings together
the producers and analysts of television in a formal and productive
way.
Using the 2003 war in Iraq as an illustrative tool for highlighting
the impact which advances in communication systems have had on
message relays, this book comes as a useful tool kit for enabling a
critical evaluation of the way language is used in the news.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
presented 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.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). "The Corpus and Discourse" series
consists of two strands. The first, Research in Corpus and
Discourse, features innovative contributions to various aspects of
corpus linguistics and a wide range of applications, from language
technology via the teaching of a second language to a history of
mentalities. The second strand, Studies in Corpus and Discourse, is
comprised of key texts bridging the gap between social studies and
linguistics. Although equally academically rigorous, this strand
will be aimed at a wider audience of academics and postgraduate
students working in both disciplines.
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.
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