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Acknowledgements | ||
Unit 1 | Introduction | 1 |
What is a newspaper? | 1 | |
What is news? | 4 | |
Do newspapers contain news? | 5 | |
Who owns the press? | 8 | |
Who pays for newspapers? | 8 | |
Should newspapers be impartial? | 10 | |
Unit 2 | Headlines | 13 |
What is a headline? | 13 | |
What are headlines for? | 13 | |
The language of headlines | 15 | |
Putting words in: what the headline writer includes | 16 | |
Taking words out: what the headline writer omits | 19 | |
Shaking it all about: how the headline writer reorganises language | 20 | |
Graphological features of headlines | 23 | |
Headlines as information | 25 | |
Headlines as opinion manipulators | 28 | |
Unit 3 | Audience | 35 |
Who reads the papers? | 35 | |
How newspapers identify their audience | 36 | |
The identity of the reader | 40 | |
The role of the audience | 40 | |
Editorialising | 45 | |
Unit 4 | Representation of groups: words, words, words | 53 |
Linguistic determinism | 53 | |
What's in a name? | 55 | |
Naming of groups | 60 | |
Representations of women | 63 | |
Sexuality | 69 | |
Unit 5 | Representations of groups: syntax | 77 |
Mothers behaving badly: Madonna and Mandy Allwood | 79 | |
Case study 1: Mandy Allwood | 80 | |
Deleting the actor | 87 | |
Case study 2: Madonna | 90 | |
Facts and possibilities | 92 | |
Deleting the action | 92 | |
Modality | 94 | |
Putting it in order | 96 | |
Unit 6 | Discourse | 99 |
Johnny Foreigner: newspapers at war | 99 | |
Identifying patterns in text | 100 | |
Lexical cohesion | 102 | |
Grammatical cohesion | 103 | |
Reference | 103 | |
Narrative in newspaper texts | 106 | |
What is narrative? | 106 | |
Index of terms | 113 | |
Index of main texts | 117 | |
Further reading | 119 | |
References | 120 |
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