International News Reporting : Metapragmatic Metaphors and the U-2
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| Title: | International News Reporting : Metapragmatic Metaphors and the U-2 |
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| Description: | 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. |
| Authors: | Verschueren, Jef |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | American newspapers--Language, Foreign news--United States, Metaphor, U-2 Incident, 1960 |
| Categories: | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | 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. |
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| ISBN: | 9789027225474 9789027279590 |
