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International News Reporting
Metapragmatic metaphors and the U-2
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With reference to a brief description of inherent properties of the international news reporting process in a free press tradition, Verschueren criticizes their being neglected in linguistic approaches to the language of the media. In an attempt to illustrate the potential contribution of functional linguistic analyses to a better understanding of the printed media as a channel for international communication, he investigates the use of metapragmatic metaphors (in particular metaphorical verbs of speaking) in the reporting by The New York Times on the U-2 incident in May 1960. The framing of the incident as a communicative event is evaluated along the dimensions of factual truth, interpretational accuracy, and understanding.
[Pragmatics & Beyond, VI:5] 1985. viii, 109 pp.
Publishing status: Available
Published online on 21 November 2011
Published online on 21 November 2011
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
- Prelim pages | pp. i–iv
- Table of contents | pp. v–vi
- Preface | pp. vii–viii
- 1. The Free Press as Inevitable Target | pp. 1–8
- 1.0. Introduction
- 1.1. The event
- 1.2. The reporting
- 1.3. The uptake
- 1.4. Two predictions and a moral
- 2. Linguists and the Media: Elements of a Circus Trial | pp. 9–32
- 2.0. Introduction
- 2.1. Jalbert, Shaba, Time, and Newsweek
- 2.2. Like-minded judges
- 2.3. Relevant questions
- 3. A Case Study: The Topic | pp. 33–40
- 3.0. Introduction: The U-2 incident
- 3.1. Metapragmatic terms
- 3.2. Metapragmatic metaphors
- 3.3. The topic
- 4. A Case Study: Data and Comments | pp. 41–92
- 4.0. Introduction
- 4.1. May 6th
- 4.2. May 7th
- 4.3. May 8th
- 4.4. May 9th
- 4.5. May 10th to May 12th
- 4.6. May 13th to May 16th
- 4.7. May 17th
- 4.8. May 18th to May 20th
- 5. A Functional Analysis | pp. 93–100
- 5.0. Introduction
- 5.1. News reporting and truth
- 5.2. News reporting and interpretation
- 5.3. News reporting and understanding
- 5.4. Misunderstanding: Whose responsibility?
- Footnotes | pp. 101–102
- | pp. 103–106
- Index | pp. 107–109
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