Evaluation and Stance in War News

Linda Lombardo is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Faculty of Political Science, Luiss Guido Carli University, Rome, Italy. Louann Haarman is Professor of English Language and Linguistics at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Bologna, Italy.

• Introduction, Haarman and Lombardo; 1. Mark up and the narrative structure of TV news, Marchi (University of Siena and Cardiff University) and Venuti (University of Naples Frederico II, Italy); 2. The news presenter as socio-cultural construct, Lombardo (Luiss Guido Carli University, Italy); 3. The news presenter and the TV audience: a comparative perspective of the use of we and you, Ferrarotti (University of Rome, Italy); 4. Wide angles and narrow views: how the Iraq conflict was reported by embeds and other war zone reporters, Clark (University of Bologna, Italy); 5. Decoding codas: evaluation in reporter and correspondent news talk, Haarman (University of Bologna, Italy); 6. 'If it wasn't rolling, it never happened': the role of visual elements in TV news, Lipson (University of Bologna, Italy); 7. News is reporting what was said: techniques and patterns of attribution, Piazza (University of Sussex, UK); Bibliography; Index.

"For all those interested in media coverage of the Iraq war this is a most important book - one that casts new light on how we understand and study bias in the news. For the first time we have a close, rigorous, systematic and comparative account of British, U.S and Italian television news of the war through the prism of a corpus linguistic approach to its discourse. Rich in evidence, analysis and careful argument, it opens up new and better ways of studying the perennial questions of neutrality, bias, and editorialising in television news." - Dr Martin Montgomery, University of Strathclyde, UK