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Tables of Contents for The Language of Newspapers
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
ix
Unit one: Introduction
1
12
What is a newspaper?
1
3
What is news?
4
1
Do newspapers contain news?
5
3
Who owns the press?
8
1
Who pays for newspapers?
8
2
Should newspapers be impartial?
10
3
Unit two: Headlines
13
22
What is a headline?
13
1
What are headlines for?
13
2
The language of headlines
15
1
Putting words in: what the headline writer includes
16
3
Taking words out: what the headline writer omits
19
1
Shaking it all about: how the headline writer reorganises language
20
3
Graphological features of headlines
23
2
Headlines as information
25
3
Headlines as opinion manipulators
28
7
Unit three: Audience
35
18
Who reads the papers?
35
1
How newspapers identify their audience
36
4
The identity of the reader
40
1
The role of the audience
40
5
Editorialising
45
8
Unit four: Representation of groups: words, words, words
53
24
Linguistic determinism
53
2
What's in a name?
55
5
Naming of groups
60
3
Representations of women
63
6
Sexuality
69
8
Unit five: Representations of groups: syntax
77
22
Mothers behaving badly: Madonna and Mandy Allwood
79
1
Case study 1: Mandy Allwood
80
7
Deleting the actor
87
3
Case study 2: Madonna
90
2
Facts and possibilities
92
1
Deleting the action
92
2
Modality
94
2
Putting it in order
96
3
Unit six: Discourse
99
14
Johnny Foreigner: newspapers at war
99
1
Identifying patterns in text
100
2
Lexical cohesion
102
1
Grammatical cohesion
103
1
Reference
103
3
Narrative in newspaper texts
106
1
What is narrative?
106
7
Index of terms
113
4
Index of main texts
117
2
Further reading
119
1
References
120