Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper CorpusEvaluation 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. |
Contents
Evaluation in the press a corpusbased analysis | 65 |
Empirical and theoretical issues | 187 |
Appendices | 219 |
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actors analysis appraisal theory ation attributed proposition attributing expressions Bank of English Barclays belief Blair bomb broadsheets Burrell cent Chapter claims clearly cline COBUILD combination concerned context contrast corpus Daily Mirror David Trimble Diana discourse functions Distribution Dodi Fayed epistemic modality evaluations of evidentiality evaluations of expectedness evaluations of IMPORTANCE evaluations of RELIABILITY evidentiality/mental evidentiality/style evoked evaluation example expected fact frequent Guardian HEARSAY/STYLE high reliability Hunston Iain Duncan Smith illocutionary included Independent instance involved Iraq John de Chastelain Judgement language Lemke lexical linguistic LOW RELIABILITY MacDonald Mail meaning MINDSAY Mirror negation negative emotivity negative evaluation newspapers newsworthiness notion occurrences Paul Burrell police POSSIBILITY/NECESSITY potential quality press readers refer Rio Ferdinand Sayer seems semantic Senser speaker speech stance Star state-of-mind story stylistic variety sub-corpora sub-values tabloids Telegraph Thompson and Hunston Tony Blair Tory unexpected unexpectedness utterance VOLITION whereas writer yesterday