Evaluation in media discourse: European perspectives: 207 (Linguistic Insights: Studies in Language and Communication) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3034320140 ISBN 13: 9783034320146

Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2017

Synopsis

Despite the apparent novelty and fluidity of the media today, there is strong evidence that patterns are emerging which both reflect and extend the evaluative paradigms previously observed in the print and broadcast media. In this complex scenario, discourse analysis offers a rich and varied methodology for understanding the different types of evaluation conveyed through media texts and the way these project, reflect and develop their relationships with their audience. The chapters in this volume draw on a variety of analytical tools, including appraisal analysis, argumentation theory, multimodal approaches and corpus linguistics, to address the issue of evaluation in media discourse. The theoretical underpinning for these chapters ranges from corpus-informed discourse studies, through critical discourse analysis and semio-communicative approaches, to Bakhtinian perspectives. Although the chapters are all in English, the scope of the volume is broadly European, covering aspects of the British, Spanish, Dutch and German media in their traditional and online manifestations, as well as contrastive studies.

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About the Author

Ruth Breeze and Inés Olza are researchers at the Instituto Cultura y Sociedad, University of Navarra, Spain. Ruth Breeze is Senior Lecturer in English and author of Corporate Discourse (2015). Inés Olza is author of Corporalidad y lenguaje. La fraseología somática metalingüística del español (Peter Lang, 2011), and is a full-time Research Fellow.

Edition details

• Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3034320140
• ISBN 13: 9783034320146
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 286
• Editor: Breeze Ruth, Olza Inés