Reviews for Language in the news

The average rating for Language in the news based on 2 reviews is 3.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-06-23 00:00:00 Charles Boyle A high three stars. Many of the concepts Fowler outlines are "obvious" (that women are referred to in the British press with diminutive and juvenile forms far more often than men, e.g.), they bear repeating (and, as Fowler points out, the very fact that it is "obvious" makes it important to state). Mostly, I was impressed by how well so many of these discursive tendencies travel to the Japanese tabloids. (Well, not the linguistic parsing of headlines.) It made me reflect on what one might be able to consider a "universal" journalistic discourse, that probably reproduces and reinforces a value system that has its own history but has claims to universality in this day and age when "the world is flat." Lukacs writes about journalists being those beings in the capitalist order doomed to be blind to the ideology they spout. B Anderson locates vernacular print journalism as a condition that enabled imagined national communities to emerge. So what of the "trashy" tabloid press today? More of the same or more of the different?

Review # 2 was written on 2014-07-03 00:00:00 Mike Marry The style in which this book is written is very conscientious and clear. This is a great introduction to critical linguistics as well as how to analyze news representation. Definitely recommended.