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Franklin, Hamer, Hanna, Kinsey & Richardson (2009)

Key Concepts in Journalism Studies - Japanese Translation

Richardson, J. E. (2009, forthcoming) (ed.) Language and Journalism. London: Routledge.

This book is an indispensable "cutting edge" book for students and researchers of journalism studies seeking a text that illustrates and applies a range of linguistic and discourse-analytic approaches to the analysis of journalism. While the form, function and politics of the language of journalism have attracted scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines, too often this analysis has reduced the work of journalists to text-characteristics alone. In contrast, this collection is united by the principle that journalistic discourse is always socially situated and the result of a series of processes – produced by journalists in accordance with particular production techniques and in specific institutional settings – and as such, analysis requires more than the methods offered by linguists.

Richardson, J. E. (2007) Analysing Newspapers: An approach from Critical Discourse Analysis. Palgrave

Book Contents

Sample chapter: Analysing Newspapers: context, text and consequence.

A review by Mary Hogarth

Poole E. & Richardson, J. E. (2006) Muslims and the News Media. London: IB Tauris.

Book Contents

Sample chapter: Who Gets to Speak? A Study of Sources in the Broadsheet Press.

A review by Naomi Sakr

Franklin, B., M. Hamer, M. Hanna, M. Kinsey, & J. E. Richardson (2005) Key Concepts in Journalism Studies, London: Sage.

Sample entries:   Journalism of Attachment
                            Orientalism
                          Propaganda
                            Referential strategies
                            Style
                            Watchdog Journalism

A review by Frederick Noronha

Richardson, J. E. (2004) (Mis)Representing Islam: the racism and rhetoric of British Broadsheet newspapers. Amsterdam: John Benjamins

BLURB:
(Mis)Representing Islam explores and illustrates how elite broadsheet newspapers are implicated in the production and reproduction of anti-Muslim racism. The book approaches journalistic discourse as the inseparable combination of social practices, discursive practices and the texts themselves from a perspective which fuses Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) with Edward Said's critique of Orientalism. This framework enables Richardson to (re)contextualise elite journalism within its professional, political, economic, social and historic settings and present a critical and precise examination of not only the prevalence but also the form and potential effects of anti-Muslim racism.
This timely book should interest researchers and students of racism, Islam, Journalism and Communications studies, Rhetoric, and (Critical) Discourse Analysis.

Book available here on Google books

Book Contents

Introduction
1. Islam, Orientalism and (racist) social exclusion
2. The Discursive Representation of Islam and Muslims
3. The ideological square I: Muslim negativity
4. The ideological square II: The West as civiliser
5. British Muslims: difference, discord and threat in domestic reporting
6. The Iraq Debacle: The reporting of Iraq during the UNSCOM stand-off
7. Conviction, Truth, Blame and a Shifting Agenda: The Reporting of Algeria
8. Conclusions
Bibliography

                        A review by Linnea Micciulla

Another review by Annabelle Lukin