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| List of Figures and Tables | vii | |
| Editor's Preface | xi | |
| Introduction and Acknowledgements | xiii | |
| 1 | Media and Language | 1 |
| 1 | Why study media language? | 3 |
| 2 | Media language research and the disciplines | 5 |
| 3 | Themes of the book | 8 |
| 2 | Researching Media Language | 9 |
| 1 | Universe and sample | 10 |
| 2 | What's news: defining genres | 12 |
| 3 | News outlets | 17 |
| 4 | News outputs | 22 |
| 5 | Pitfalls, shortcuts and the long way round | 25 |
| 6 | The media react to research | 30 |
| 3 | The Production of News Language | 33 |
| 1 | Many hands make tight work | 34 |
| 2 | Producer roles in news language | 36 |
| 3 | The news assembly line | 44 |
| 4 | Embedding in the news text | 50 |
| 4 | Authoring and Editing the News Text | 56 |
| 1 | Constructing the news text | 56 |
| 2 | How news is edited | 66 |
| 3 | Why edit? | 75 |
| 5 | The Audience for Media Language | 84 |
| 1 | Disjunction and isolation | 85 |
| 2 | Multiple roles in the audience | 90 |
| 3 | Audience embedding | 95 |
| 4 | Communicators as audience | 98 |
| 6 | Stylin' the News: Audience Design | 104 |
| 1 | Style in language | 104 |
| 2 | Style and audience status in the British press | 107 |
| 3 | Audience design in New Zealand radio | 110 |
| 4 | Editing copy for style | 122 |
| 7 | Talking Strange: Referee Design in Media Language | 126 |
| 1 | Taking the initiative | 126 |
| 2 | The referees | 127 |
| 3 | Television advertisements as referee design | 135 |
| 8 | Telling Stories | 147 |
| 1 | News stories and personal narratives | 148 |
| 2 | News values | 155 |
| 3 | News as stories | 161 |
| 4 | The structure of news stories | 169 |
| 9 | Make-up of the News Story | 175 |
| 1 | The lead | 175 |
| 2 | Headlines | 185 |
| 3 | News sources and actors | 190 |
| 4 | Time and place in the news | 198 |
| 5 | Facts and figures | 202 |
| 6 | Talking heads | 204 |
| 10 | Telling It Like It Isn't | 212 |
| 1 | Approaches to media miscommunication | 212 |
| 2 | Misreporting: the climate change case | 216 |
| 3 | Misediting international news | 224 |
| 11 | (Mis)understanding the News | 230 |
| 1 | Recall and comprehension | 231 |
| 2 | The public misunderstand climate change | 238 |
| Notes | 248 | |
| References | 254 | |
| Index | 269 |
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Kenneth Tindale
reviewed The Language of News Media on November 18, 2014
The Language of News Media
As a long-time addict of Canada's best current affairs radio program i was delighted to have the chance to read thse remarkabel vignettes. One can surely hope that more stories like this will come along soon.
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