News as Discourse

by Teun A. van Dijk

Book Overview

First Published in 1990. This book presents a new, interdisciplinary theory of news in the press. Against the background of developments in discourse analysis, it is argued that news should be studied primarily as a form of public discourse. Whereas in much mass communication research, the economic, social, or cultural dimensions of news and news media are addressed, the present study emphasizes the importance of an explicit structural analysis of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138152390
• ISBN13: 9781138152397
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 208 Pages