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Acknowledgements xi // 1 Introduction: the importance of language in the // news 1 // 2 The social construction of news 10 // Bias or representation 10 // News values 12 // Stereotypes 17 // Social and economic factors in news selection 19 // Language and representation 25 // The linguistic background 26 // Anthropological linguistics: language, culture and thought 28 // Functional linguistics, variation, social semiotic 32 // Social semiotic in news discourse: an example 38 // Discourse and the reader 41 // 4 Conversation and consensus 46 // The ‘public idiom’ and the formation of consensus 46 // Consensus and contradiction 48 // Categorization and conversation 54 // Oral models in the Press 59 // 5 Analytic tools: critical linguistics 66 // Linguistic tools 68 // Transitivity 70 // Some syntactic transformations of the clause 76 // Lexical structure 80 // Interpersonal elements: modality 85 // Interpersonal elements: speech acts 87 // x Contents // 6 Discrimination in discourse: gender and power // Personalization Discrimination Discrimination and power // 7 Terms of abuse and of endearment // Rambo and the mad dog Postscript // 8 Attitudes to power // Ideological roles of the Press // The dominance of the status quo: hospital patients as powerless Law and order // 9 A Press scare: the salmonella-in-eggs affair // Press hysteria // Participants // Chronology // Some aspects of hysterical style // 10 The salmonella-in-eggs affair: Pandora’s box // What am I? // Pandora’s box: generating and equating new instances ’What am I?’ revisited // Closing Pandora’s box: what are you going to do about it? // Blame the housewife The persistence of paradigms // 11 Leading the people: editorial authority // 12 Conclusion: prospects for critical news analysis // Notes

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