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News discourseMonika Bednarek

News discourse

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"Now reissued and retypeset, this canonical book explores the role of language and images in newspaper, radio, online and television news. The authors introduce useful frameworks for analysing language, image and the interaction between the two, and illustrate these with authentic news stories from around the English-speaking world, ranging from the Oktoberfest to environmental disasters to the killing of Osama bin Laden. This analysis persuasively illustrates how events are retold in the news and made 'newsworthy' through both language and image. This clearly written and accessible…

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5 editions
  • Other · English · 2018
    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781350063730
  • Other · English · 2018
    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 9781350063723
  • Other · English · 2018
    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc · 352 pages · 9781350063716
  • Other · English · 2012
    Continuum International Pub. Group · 288 pages · 9781441120908
  • Other · English · 2012
    Bloomsbury Academic & Professional · 289 pages · 9781282133488
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