The Discourse of Broadcast News: A Linguistic Approach

by Martin Montgomery

In this timely and important study Martin Montgomery unpicks the inside workings of what must still be considered the dominant news medium: broadcast news. Drawing principally on linguistics, but multidisciplinary in its scope, The Discourse of Broadcast News demonstrates that news programmes are as much about showing as telling, as much about ordinary bystanders as about experts, and as much about personal testimony as calling politicians to account...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415358728
• ISBN13: 9780415358729
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"