Communicating Conflict

Elizabeth Thomson is Senior Lecturer in the School of English Literatures, Philosophy and Languages, at the University of Wollongong, Australia. P. R. R. White is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Linguistics at the University of Adelaide, Australia.

• 1. The news story as rhetoric: P R R White (University of Adelaide, Australia) and Elizabeth Thomson (University of Wollongong, Australia); I: Conflict between Nation States; 2. Variation in 'reporter voice': Annabelle Lukin (Macquarie University, Australia); 3. Evaluating 'reporter voice': Elizabeth Thomson (University of Wollongong, Australia) and Nagisa Fukui (University of New South Wales, Australia); 4. America's War on Terror: a Vietnamese perspective: Tran Thi Hong Van; 5. Symbolising ideology: Motoki Sano; 6. Ideologically opposed news stories: Alice Caffarel (University of Sydney, Australia); 7. Debating Taiwanese authorities in the Chinese media: Edward McDonald; 8. Australian and Indonesian reporting of military clashes in Indonesia: Ari Poespodihardjo and Philip Kitley; II: Conflict within Nation States; 9. Construing death in the Thai media: John Knox (Macquarie University, Australia) and Pattama Patpong (Macquarie University, Australia); 10. 'Reporter voice' in the reporting of conflict in Finland: Maj-Britt Hoglund; 11. Evaluation in news images: comparative studies of the detention of refugees: Dorothy Economou; Index.

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