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Alarming reports : communicating conflict in the daily news
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ISBN: 0857454455 1282627740 9786612627743 1845459156 0857451561 1845455797 Year: 2009 Publisher: New York : Berghahn Books,

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News stories provide an essential confirmation of our ideas about who we are, what we have to fear, and what to do about it: a marketplace of ideas, shopped by rational citizen decision makers but also a shared resource for grounding our contested narratives of identity in objective reality. News as a fundamental social process comes into being not when an event takes place or when a report of the event is created but when that report becomes news to someone. As it moves off the page into the community, news discovers - through its interpretations - its reality in the lives of the consumers. T


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Communicating conflict
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ISBN: 9781441172389 1441172386 9781441198006 1441198008 1283207966 9786613207968 0826497829 9780826497826 Year: 2010 Publisher: London Continuum

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Communicating Conflict brings together a collection of multilingual case studies drawn from the international media. The contributors use methodologies drawn from Critical Discourse Analysis and Systemic Functional Linguistics to explore how these texts overtly or covertly advance particular value positions and world views. They pay particular attention to how the reader is positioned with respect to the events being described, and, using appraisal theory, the various voices which are referenced by the text. This book is a timely examination of the reporting of conflict around the world. It

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