Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language

by Martin Conboy

Book Overview

Tabloid Britainexamines four popular tabloid newspapers and uncovers the variety of linguistics strategies they use to depict contemporary Britain. These strategies are shown to construct, in a circular fashion, an impersonation of the language of the community of readers which the newspapers seek to attract.

Including examples taken from a month-long study, Martin Conboy considers how this imaginary community of the British nation is drawn...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415355524
• ISBN13: 9780415355520
• Release Date: November 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"