The Discourse of News Values breaks new ground in multimodal news discourse, offering the first book-length treatment of the discursive analysis of news values

Cutting edge introduction to news discourse, offering an authoritative guide to analyzing language and images and in print and online.

Newspaper coverage of world events is presented as the unbiased recording of `hard facts`. In an incisive study of both the quality and the popular press, Roger

Written by two practitioner-academics (who between them have more than fifty years of news industry experience), News Values analyses the shape of the news indu

Evaluation is the linguistic expression of speaker/writer opinion, and has only recently become the focus of linguistic analysis. This book presents the first c