Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres : Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles Paperback / softback
by Jonathan (Hong Kong Metropolitan University) Ngai
Part of the Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics series
Paperback / softback
Description
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 includeusing a 900,000-word comparable corpus of newspaper texts arranged by genre and topic domaindrawing on a specially developed framework of analysis with a strong orientation to news valuescarrying out structural analysis by creating sub-corpora of different parts of newspaper texts andadopting a functional approach to evaluation in newspaper discourseEvaluation 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.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:230 pages, 55 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/01/2024
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- ISBN:9780367713942
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:230 pages, 55 Tables, black and white
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:29/01/2024
- Category:
- ISBN:9780367713942
