A day in the news : a stylistic analysis of newsspeak /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Morini, Massimiliano
Published: Peter Lang,
Publisher Address: Bern, Switzerland :
Publication Dates: [2018]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Linguistic insights, volume 251
Subjects:
Carrier Form: vi, 162 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages [149]-160) and index.
ISBN: 9783034335072
3034335075
Index Number: PN4783
CLC: H0
G212
Call Number: G212/M859
Contents: Note continued: 3.3.The stylistics of (complex) arguments: e-cigarettes and e-cigs -- 3.4.Sensational stylistics: shark attack! -- 3.5.The stylistics of popular culture: star footballers, booze and crashes -- 3.6.Conclusion: to draw a moral or adorn a tale -- 4.Conclusion: getting closer and closer.
Machine generated contents note: 0.Introduction -- 0.1.Style and the news: purpose and plan of the book -- 0.2.The corpus -- 0.3.A brief history of news stylistics -- 1.Multimodal stylistics and the news -- 1.1.Proximity and distance: a multimodal appeal -- 1.2.The weight and size of news -- 1.3.The battle of front pages: size, type, colour -- 1.4.The concrete poetry of headlines -- 1.5.What kind of news? Newspaper topics and genres -- 1.6.Photojournalism -- 1.7.Online journalism -- 1.8.Conclusion: news and entertainment -- 2.Corpus linguistics and the news -- 2.1.Linguistic proximity vs dis