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Written by a linguist who is himself a journalist, this is a uniquely informed account of the language of the news media.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of Figures and Tables (p. vii)
• Editor's Preface (p. xi)
• Introduction and Acknowledgements (p. xiii)
• 1 Media and Language (p. 1)
• 1 Why study media language? (p. 3)
• 2 Media language research and the disciplines (p. 5)
• 3 Themes of the book (p. 8)
• 2 Researching Media Language (p. 9)
• 1 Universe and sample (p. 10)
• 2 What's news: defining genres (p. 12)
• 3 News outlets (p. 17)
• 4 News outputs (p. 22)
• 5 Pitfalls, shortcuts and the long way round (p. 25)
• 6 The media react to research (p. 30)
• 3 The Production of News Language (p. 33)
• 1 Many hands make tight work (p. 34)
• 2 Producer roles in news language (p. 36)
• 3 The news assembly line (p. 44)
• 4 Embedding in the news text (p. 50)
• 4 Authoring and Editing the News Text (p. 56)
• 1 Constructing the news text (p. 56)
• 2 How news is edited (p. 66)
• 3 Why edit? (p. 75)
• 5 The Audience for Media Language (p. 84)
• 1 Disjunction and isolation (p. 85)
• 2 Multiple roles in the audience (p. 90)
• 3 Audience embedding (p. 95)
• 4 Communicators as audience (p. 98)
• 6 Stylin' the News: Audience Design (p. 104)
• 1 Style in language (p. 104)
• 2 Style and audience status in the British press (p. 107)
• 3 Audience design in New Zealand radio (p. 110)
• 4 Editing copy for style (p. 122)
• 7 Talking Strange: Referee Design in Media Language (p. 126)
• 1 Taking the initiative (p. 126)
• 2 The referees (p. 127)
• 3 Television advertisements as referee design (p. 135)
• 8 Telling Stories (p. 147)
• 1 News stories and personal narratives (p. 148)
• 2 News values (p. 155)
• 3 News as stories (p. 161)
• 4 The structure of news stories (p. 169)
• 9 Make-up of the News Story (p. 175)
• 1 The lead (p. 175)
• 2 Headlines (p. 185)
• 3 News sources and actors (p. 190)
• 4 Time and place in the news (p. 198)
• 5 Facts and figures (p. 202)
• 6 Talking heads (p. 204)
• 10 Telling It Like It Isn't (p. 212)
• 1 Approaches to media miscommunication (p. 212)
• 2 Misreporting: the climate change case (p. 216)
• 3 Misediting international news (p. 224)
• 11 (Mis)understanding the News (p. 230)
• 1 Recall and comprehension (p. 231)
• 2 The public misunderstand climate change (p. 238)
• Notes (p. 248)
• References (p. 254)
• Index (p. 269)

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