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Review of News Discourse by Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple

Review of News Discourse by Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple REVIEW Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple. 2012. News Discourse. London: Continuum. 288 pp. ISBN: 9781441147998 (paperback), price: £27.99 ISBN: 9781441120908 (hardback), price: £85.00 Reviewed by Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, University of Opole Published in the Bloomsbury Discourse Series, News Discourse systematically reviews some of the main aspects of mediating news. It is meant as a textbook for postgraduate students, but can also be read as an update on and extension of the authors' original research projects. It is collaboratively written by researchers with backgrounds in journalism/press photography and linguistics/semiotics. They take on the ambitious task of proposing a comprehensive analytic framework to account for the variability inherent in news discourse across Anglo-American media. In particular, they aim at highlighting the language-image links in producing meaning with respect to the different affordances of various media of news distribution. The introductory chapter provides a panoramic overview of methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of mediated news communication. It divides the extant approaches into those linguistically oriented and those originating in media/journalism studies, and identifies the authors' own position. It also introduces the studies undertaken in the publication with methodological clarity and attention to the representativeness of the dataset. However, in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Lodz Papers in Pragmatics de Gruyter

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REVIEW Monika Bednarek and Helen Caple. 2012. News Discourse. London: Continuum. 288 pp. ISBN: 9781441147998 (paperback), price: £27.99 ISBN: 9781441120908 (hardback), price: £85.00 Reviewed by Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, University of Opole Published in the Bloomsbury Discourse Series, News Discourse systematically reviews some of the main aspects of mediating news. It is meant as a textbook for postgraduate students, but can also be read as an update on and extension of the authors' original research projects. It is collaboratively written by researchers with backgrounds in journalism/press photography and linguistics/semiotics. They take on the ambitious task of proposing a comprehensive analytic framework to account for the variability inherent in news discourse across Anglo-American media. In particular, they aim at highlighting the language-image links in producing meaning with respect to the different affordances of various media of news distribution. The introductory chapter provides a panoramic overview of methodological and theoretical approaches to the study of mediated news communication. It divides the extant approaches into those linguistically oriented and those originating in media/journalism studies, and identifies the authors' own position. It also introduces the studies undertaken in the publication with methodological clarity and attention to the representativeness of the dataset. However, in the

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Published: Nov 1, 2012

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