Media discourse

Edward Arnold

1995

viii, 215

Bibliogr.: p. 206-211

Contents: Media and language: setting an agenda ; Approcahes to media discourse ; Communication in the mass media ; Critical analysis of media discourse ; Intertextuality and the news ; Representations in documentary and news ; Identity and social relations in media texts ; Crimewatch UK ; Political discourse in the media

The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. Norman Fairclough applies to media language his 'critical discourse analysis' framework which he developed in 'Language and Power' and 'Discourse and Social Life'. Drawing on examples from TV, radio and the press, he focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes of social and cultural change. In particular he explores the tensions between public and private in the media and the tensions between information and entertainment.