Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles

di Jonathan Ngai (Autore)

Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2024

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.

• Autore: Jonathan Ngai
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
• Anno: 2024
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 230 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 450 gr.
• EAN: 9780367713942

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