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Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles
Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles
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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. It offers a fresh approach to exploring how evaluation contributes to the construction of these genres, each with a distinct communicative purpose. The book uses a 900,000-word corpus of newspaper texts, draws on a framework of analysis with a strong orientation to news values, and adopts a functional approach to evaluation. It demonstrates that evaluation plays a vital and dynamic role in the construction of hard news stories, editorials, and feature articles by performing a variety of discourse functions.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 230 pages
Publication date: 29 January 2024
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials, and Feature Articles is a groundbreaking book-length study that delves into the realm of evaluation or stance in three major newspaper genres: hard news stories, editorials, and feature articles. The latter genre, often overlooked in linguistic studies, is given its due attention in this comprehensive analysis. The book offers a fresh and innovative approach to understanding how evaluation or stance contributes to the distinct communicative purposes of these three newspaper genres.
Key features of the study include:
A comprehensive corpus of 900,000 words of newspaper texts, meticulously arranged by genre and topic domain.
A specially developed framework of analysis, rooted in news values, to examine the role of evaluation in newspaper discourse.
Structural analysis through the creation of sub-corpora of different parts of newspaper texts, enabling a deep understanding of the interplay between evaluation and textual organization.
An applied functional approach to evaluation, emphasizing its diverse discourse functions and its role in shaping the construction of news stories, editorials, and feature articles.
Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres vividly showcases that evaluation serves as a crucial and ever-evolving force in the creation of hard news stories, editorials, and feature articles. Through its comprehensive analysis, the book sheds light on important linguistic concepts such as specificity/variation and textual colligation. By providing a novel and unified perspective on evaluation as a primary driver of text construction, this book will be of immense interest to researchers, teachers, and students of English language, applied linguistics, and journalism.
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367713942
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