Approaches Media Discourse

Vera Bell is an award-winning author of the trilogy, Always and Forever, set in sixteenth-century Ireland and present-day United States. Book One, Through the Veneer of Time, is her debut novel. She wrote it after trying Past Life Regression and finding herself immersed in a world so captivating, she couldn't let it go. A former commercial artist, she lives in Georgia with her husband, two teenagers, and one fur baby. Her favorite place to write is on her porch, overlooking a pond lined with river birches and magnolias. The topics she never tires of are Ireland, past lives, and love that transcends time and space.

Preface. Notes on Contributors.
Acknowledgements.
Chapter 1. Media and Discourse: A Critical Overview: Peter Garrett and Allan Bell.
Chapter 2. Opinions and Ideologies in the Press: Teun A. van Dijk.
Chapter 3. The Discourse Structure of News Stories: Allan Bell.
Chapter 4. News from Nowhere: Televisual News Discourse and the Construction of Hegemony: Stuart Allan.
Chapter 5. Political Discourse in the Media: An Analytical Framework: Norman Fairclough.
Chapter 6. Conversation Analysis: Neutralism in British News Interviews: David Greatbatch.
Chapter 7. Front Pages: (The Critical) Analysis of Newspaper Layout: Gunther Kress and Theo van Leeuwen.
Chapter8. Signs and Wonders: Interpreting the Economy through Television: Kay Richardson.
Chapter 9. Media-Language-World: Paddy Scannel.
References.
Index.

aeo Includes the leading authors in all main areas of media discourse. aeo Includes brief description of the approaches framework followed by example analysis.