Analysing Newspapers: An Approach from Critical Discourse Analysis Book

List of Tables and Figures     ix
Acknowledgements     x
Introduction: Newspaper Discourse     1
This book's view of society     2
This book's view of journalism     6
This book's view of language     10
Analysing Newspapers: Context, Text and Consequence     15
Problems in studying 'content'     15
Discourse Analysis     21
Critical Discourse Analysis     26
Fairclough's method of critical discourse analysis     37
Summary     44
Analysing Texts: Some Concepts and Tools of Linguistic Analysis     46
Introduction: levels of analysis     46
Lexical analysis: the choice and meaning of words     47
Sentence construction: syntax and transitivity     54
Sentence construction: modality     59
Presupposition     62
Rhetorical tropes     64
Narrative     71
Discursive Practices: Producing Print Journalism     75
Introduction: what are discursive practices?     75
Markets or citizens? Conceptualising the audience     77
Professional practices     82
Organisational practices: writing for the audience     89
Linguistic style     95
Intertextuality     100
Using texts: press agency copy     106
Summary     112
Social Practices: Journalism and the Material World     114
Introduction     114
Economic practices and journalistic discourse: newspaper campaigns     116
Political practices and journalistic discourse: reporting Algeria     127
Ideological practices and journalistic discourse     134
Summary     147
Applying Discourse Analysis: Argumentation and Letters to the Editor     149
Introduction     149
'Getting in': the selection of letters     151
Argumentation     155
Aristotle's Rhetoric     156
Rules of reasonableness     165
Kilroy-Silk and anti-Arab racism     171
Summary     176
Critical Discourse Analysis: War Reporting     178
Introduction     178
Social and discursive practices: propaganda and journalism     180
Manufacturing consent: modes of proof in the 'pre-war' period     186
Discursive practices: shepherding journalists     193
Reporting the invasion: action and agency in headlines     197
Pro patria mori: heroes, villains and the marshalling of morality     209
Summary     218
Conclusion     220
Notes     226
Glossary     236
References     245
Index     261