Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press by Roger Fowler
First Published in 1991. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Language in the News
Summary
Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of hard facts. In this study of the British press, Roger Fowler challenges this perception, arguing that news and the language it employs is a phenomenon created by social and political factors.
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"Fowler approaches a deconstruction of newswriting with considerable scholarly detachment. . . . Considering the complexity of the ideas introduced, the book is well written and accessible . . . .."
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements Xl
1 Introduction: the importance of language in the
news 1
2 The social construction of news 10
Bias or representation 10
News values 12
Stereotypes 17
Social and economic Jactors in news selection 19
3 Language and representation 25
The linguistic background 26
Anthropological linguistics: language, culture and thought 28
Functional linguistics, variation, social semiotic 32
Social semiotic in news discourse: an example 38
Discourse and the reader 41
4 Conversation and consensus 46
The 'public idiom' and the Jormation oj consensus 46
Consensus and contradiction 48
Categorization and conversation 54
Oral models in the Press 59
5 Analytic tools: critical linguistics 66
Linguistic tools 68
Transitivity 70
Some syntactic transformations oj the clause 76
Lexical structure 80
Interpersonal elements: modality 85
Interpersonal elements: speech acts 87
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6 Discrimination in discourse: gender and power 91
Personalization 91
Discrimination 93
Discrimination and power 105
7 Terms of abuse and of endearment 110
Rambo and the mad dog 112
Postscript 119
8 Attitudes to power 120
Ideological roles of the Press 120
The dominance of the status quo: hospital patients as
powerless 124
~w~o. 1~
9 A Press scare: the salmonella-in-eggs affair 146
Press hysteria 146
Participants 151
Chronology 153
Some aspects of hysterical style 160
10 The salmonella-in-eggs affair: Pandora's box 170
What am I? 170
Pandora's box: generating and equating new instances 174
'What am P' revisited 178
Closing Pandora's box: what are you going to do about
~? 181
Blame the housewife 186
The persistence of paradigms 202
11 Leading the people: editorial authority 208
12 Conclusion: prospects for critical news analysis 222
Notes 235
Index
1 Introduction: the importance of language in the
news 1
2 The social construction of news 10
Bias or representation 10
News values 12
Stereotypes 17
Social and economic Jactors in news selection 19
3 Language and representation 25
The linguistic background 26
Anthropological linguistics: language, culture and thought 28
Functional linguistics, variation, social semiotic 32
Social semiotic in news discourse: an example 38
Discourse and the reader 41
4 Conversation and consensus 46
The 'public idiom' and the Jormation oj consensus 46
Consensus and contradiction 48
Categorization and conversation 54
Oral models in the Press 59
5 Analytic tools: critical linguistics 66
Linguistic tools 68
Transitivity 70
Some syntactic transformations oj the clause 76
Lexical structure 80
Interpersonal elements: modality 85
Interpersonal elements: speech acts 87
Copyrighted Material
x Contents
6 Discrimination in discourse: gender and power 91
Personalization 91
Discrimination 93
Discrimination and power 105
7 Terms of abuse and of endearment 110
Rambo and the mad dog 112
Postscript 119
8 Attitudes to power 120
Ideological roles of the Press 120
The dominance of the status quo: hospital patients as
powerless 124
~w~o. 1~
9 A Press scare: the salmonella-in-eggs affair 146
Press hysteria 146
Participants 151
Chronology 153
Some aspects of hysterical style 160
10 The salmonella-in-eggs affair: Pandora's box 170
What am I? 170
Pandora's box: generating and equating new instances 174
'What am P' revisited 178
Closing Pandora's box: what are you going to do about
~? 181
Blame the housewife 186
The persistence of paradigms 202
11 Leading the people: editorial authority 208
12 Conclusion: prospects for critical news analysis 222
Notes 235
Index
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9780415014199
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Language in the News: Discourse and Ideology in the Press by Roger Fowler
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1991-04-11
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