Analysing Newspapers: An Approach From Critical Discourse Analysis

Cover
Contents
Introduction: Newspaper Discourse
This book’s view of society
This book’s view of journalism
This book’s view of language
Analysing Newspapers: Context, Text and Consequences
Problems in studying ‘content’
Discourse Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis
Fairclough’s method of critical discourse analysis
Summary
Analysing Texts: Some Concepts and Tools of Linguistic Analysis
Introduction: levels of analysis
Lexical analysis: the choice and meaning of words
Sentence construction: syntax and transitivity
Sentence construction: modality
Presupposition
Rhetorical tropes
Narrative
Discursive Practices: Producing Print Journalism
Introduction: what are discursive practices?
Markets or citizens? Conceptualising the audience
Professional practices
Organisational practices: writing for the audience
Linguistic style
Intertextuality
Using texts: press agency copy
Summary
Social Practices: Journalism and the Material World
Introduction
Economic practices and journalistic discourse: newspaper campaigns
Political practices and journalistic discourse: reporting Algeria
Ideological practices and journalistic discourse
Summaty
Applying Discourse Analysis: Argumentation and Letters to the Editor
Introduction
‘Getting in’: the selection of letters
Argumentation
Aristotle’s Rhetoric
Rules of reasonableness
Kilroy-Silk and anti-Arab racism
Summary
Critical Discourse Analysis: War Reporting
Introduction
Social and discursive practices: propaganda and journalism
Manufacturing consent: modes of proof in the ‘pre-war’ period
Discursive practices: shepherding journalists
Reporting the invasion: action and agency in headlines
Pro patria mori: heroes, villains and the marshalling of morality
Summary
Conclusion
Notes
Glossary
References