Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles

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Jonathan Ngai (Hong Kong Metropolitan University)

Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres

Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles

Jonathan Ngai (Hong Kong Metropolitan University)

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Routledge
29 January 2024

Literature: history & criticism; Applied linguistics for ELT; Humanities; Media studies; Press & journalism

Series: Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics

Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres: Hard News Stories, Editorials and Feature Articles 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.

Key features include

using a 900,000-word comparable corpus of newspaper texts arranged by genre and topic domain drawing on a specially developed framework of analysis with a strong orientation to news values carrying out structural analysis by creating sub-corpora of different parts of newspaper texts and adopting a functional approach to evaluation in newspaper discourse

Evaluation Across Newspaper Genres 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.

By: Jonathan Ngai (Hong Kong Metropolitan University)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9780367713942
ISBN 10: 0367713942
Series: Routledge Studies in Applied Linguistics
Pages: 230
Publication Date: 29 January 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jonathan Ngai is Assistant Professor of Linguistics and Applied Linguistics at the School of Arts and Social Sciences, Hong Kong Metropolitan University.