Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus

by Monika Bednarek

Evaluation 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.

Genres: Nonfiction, Linguistics

272 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2006

Reviews

[Melissa Van Ostaeyen · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting, but unfortunately I couldn't use a lot of this information for my paper. It's on selection criteria for news on social media and I needed some background literature on media discourse.