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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?
9
1
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
1
Headlines as information
24
4
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
20
Linguistic determinism
53
2
What's in a name?
55
5
Naming of groups
60
3
Representations of women
63
4
Ethnic group
67
6
Unit five: Making Monsters: syntax
73
22
Making monsters: Mary Bell, Jon Venables and Robert Thompson
75
8
Deleting the actor
83
2
Mary Bell
85
3
Facts and possibilities
88
1
Deleting the action
88
2
Modality
90
5
Unit six: Discourse
95
20
The barbarian at the gates: Britain under siege
95
1
Identifying patterns in text
96
3
Lexical cohesion
99
1
Grammatical cohesion
100
1
Reference
101
4
Pragmatics: language in context
105
1
Presupposition
106
1
Implicature
107
4
Further resources
111
1
Other resources
112
3
Index of terms
115
4
Index of main texts
119
2
Further reading
121
2
References
123