Fairclough Norman. Media Discourse

E. Arnold, 1995. — 214 p.The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. In Media Discourse, Norman Fairclough applies the "critical discourse analysis" framework he developed in Language and Power and Discourse and Social Life to media language. Drawing on examples from TV, radio, and newspapers, he focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes of social and cultural change, particularly the tensions between public and private in the media and the tensions between information and entertainment.Acknowledgements
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Media and language: setting an agenda
Approaches to media discourse
Linguistic and sociolinguistic analysis
Conversation analysis
Semiotic analysis
Critical linguistics and social semiotics
Van Dijk: the social-cognitive model
Cultural-genetic analysis
Desiderata for CA of media discourse
Communication in the mass media
CA of media discourse
Intertextuality and the News
Representation in documentary and news
Identity and social relations in media texts
Crimewatch UK
Political discourse in the media
Critical media literacy