Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres

<p><em>Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories Editorials and Feature Articles</em> is the first book-length study of evaluation or stance in three major newspaper genres: hard news stories editorials and feature articles the last of which is a Cinderella genre in linguistic studies. It offers a fresh approach to exploring the ways in which evaluation or stance contributes to the construction of the three newspaper genres each with a distinct communicative purpose.</p><p>Key features include</p><ul> <li>using a 900000-word comparable corpus of newspaper texts arranged by genre and topic domain</li> <li>drawing on a specially developed framework of analysis with a strong orientation to news values</li> <li>carrying out structural analysis by creating sub-corpora of different parts of newspaper texts and</li> <li>adopting a functional approach to evaluation in newspaper discourse</li> </ul><p><i>Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres</i> amply demonstrates that evaluation plays a vital and yet dynamic role in the construction of hard news stories editorials and feature articles by performing a great variety of discourse functions. In doing so the book also illuminates such important linguistic concepts as specificity/variation and textual colligation. Providing a new and unifying perspective on evaluation as a prime driver of text construction it will be of interest and use to researchers teachers and students of English language applied linguistics and journalism.</p>