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News Talk : investigating the language of journalism / Colleen Cotter.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c2010.Description: xiii, 280 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780521819619 (hbk.)
  • 9780521525657 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 070.43 22 COT
Contents:
An interactional and ethnographic approach to news media language -- Craft and community : reading the ways of journalists -- The ways reporters learn to report and editors learn to edit -- News values and their significance in text and practice -- The "story meeting" : deciding what's fit to print -- The interaction-based nature of journalism -- Story design and the dictates of the "lead" -- "Boilerplate" : simplifying stories, anchoring text, altering meaning -- Style and standardization in news language -- The impact of the news process on media language.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Barcode
Short Loan Books Hamu Mukasa Library Closed Access l Short Loan; Level 1 070.43 COT (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 155123

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-271) and index.

An interactional and ethnographic approach to news media language -- Craft and community : reading the ways of journalists -- The ways reporters learn to report and editors learn to edit -- News values and their significance in text and practice -- The "story meeting" : deciding what's fit to print -- The interaction-based nature of journalism -- Story design and the dictates of the "lead" -- "Boilerplate" : simplifying stories, anchoring text, altering meaning -- Style and standardization in news language -- The impact of the news process on media language.

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