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
- Glossary of news and linguistic terms
- References
- Index
Introduction
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
- Glossary of news and linguistic terms
- References
- Index
Summary
In this book, I consider how the process of newsgathering and daily journalistic routines work together to produce the language we see as unique to daily news and define as being journalistic. The book explores news language from the vantage point of the practitioner, focusing on the activities that journalists engage in, the knowledge they utilize, the ways they are taught to gather news and to write about or broadcast it, and the news values and other commitments that influence their decisions about the news. It gives a heretofore unexplored perspective from which to evaluate everyday news language, focusing on elements of practice and process and their relation to text, talk, and social meaning.
Linguists and journalists both have a keen interest in language, as well as descriptive protocols, audience/interlocutors, interactions, and community. Despite this shared focus, the ways each profession looks at language, audience, and community vary tremendously. The book is intended to foster a dialogue between two professions for whom language and social life are central; and for each group – the researchers and the practitioners, the academics and the journalists – to consider language in the media differently.
Goals and objectives
The main objective of the book is to develop an ethnographic view of the language of everyday journalism and an interactional sensibility in analyzing it, through which we come to understand how and what language is produced by the news community, and its relation to an intended audience.
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- News TalkInvestigating the Language of Journalism, pp. 1 - 12Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010