Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The process and practice of everyday journalism
- Part II Conceptualizing the news
- Part III Constructing the story: texts and contexts
- Part IV Decoding the discourse
- Conclusion and key points
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 Story samples
- Appendix 2 Outline guide for the analysis of news media language
- Appendix 3 SPJ Code of Ethics
- Glossary of news and linguistic terms
- References
- Index
Appendix 2 - Outline guide for the analysis of news media language
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Part I The process and practice of everyday journalism
- Part II Conceptualizing the news
- Part III Constructing the story: texts and contexts
- Part IV Decoding the discourse
- Conclusion and key points
- Epilogue
- Appendices
- Appendix 1 Story samples
- Appendix 2 Outline guide for the analysis of news media language
- Appendix 3 SPJ Code of Ethics
- Glossary of news and linguistic terms
- References
- Index
Summary
Below are ten topics relevant to our understanding of news language from the linguistic and journalistic perspectives. Primary linguistic concepts are listed, followed by deliberately open-ended questions to encourage further thought, research, and understanding from several analytical points-of-view: structural, functional, theoretical, social, linguistic, practice-oriented, and journalistic.
USAGE NORMS AND EXPECTATIONS
speech
writing
influence of written norms on spoken language
influence of spoken language on written norms
influence of channel or modality (Web, broadcast, print) on usage
influence of Web on news-story style
Questions: How can we “read” the news media knowing that different modalities of transmission comprise different sets of norms? How does what reporters are taught about newswriting influence the shape of the narrative? Where do journalistic usage norms differ from or correspond to expectations in the larger culture?
USAGE AND SOCIAL EVALUATION (SOCIAL FACTORS)
speech community
communicative competence
language attitudes and prejudice
social stratification: language choice and its implications
Questions: How can the media be accounted for in a community? How would speech community norms influence usage in the media? How does standard language ideology figure in? How does the news media reinforce or subvert standard language, innovation in language, society's attitudes toward non-standard language users?
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- News TalkInvestigating the Language of Journalism, pp. 247 - 250Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010