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Evaluation across newspaper genres
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- Book Synopsis
- 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 include using a 900,000-word comparable corpus of newspaper texts arranged by genre and topic domain drawing on a specially developed framework of analysis with a strong orientation to news values carrying out structural analysis by creating sub-corpora of different parts of newspaper texts and adopting a functional approach to evaluation in newspaper discourse Evaluation 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.
- About The Author
- Jonathan Ngai is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9780367713942
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Routledge, (29 January 2024)
- Number of Pages
- 230
- Weight
- 453 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 234 x 234 x 17 mm
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