{"product_id":"the-language-of-inequality-in-the-news-a-discourse-analytic-approach-hardback-9781108474337","title":"The Language of Inequality in the News; A Discourse Analytic Approach (Hardback) 9781108474337","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Language of Inequality in the News\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Discourse Analytic Approach\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExplores how UK wealth inequality is discussed in newspapers, with a particular focus on changes over the past forty-five years.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMichael Toolan (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781108474337, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 6 December 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e252 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 1.7 cm, 0.48 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Michael Toolan skilfully dissects the language of mainstream media, exemplified by The Times and the Mail … This book is a showcase project for all discourse-oriented interpretive social studies.' Wolfgang Teubert, University of Birmingham\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhy in the early 1970s does The Times reject the idea of a national lottery, as rewarding luck not merit and effort, but warmly welcome one by the 1990s? Why in the 1970s do the Daily Mail's TV reviews address serious contemporary themes such as class- and race-relations, whereas forty years later they are largely concerned with celebrities, talent shows, and nostalgia? Why does the Conservative Chancellor in the 2010s mention 'Britain' so very often, when the Conservative Chancellor in the 1970s scarcely does at all? Covering news stories spanning fort-five years, Michael Toolan explores how wealth inequality has been presented in centre-right British newspapers, focusing on changes in the representation may have helped present-day inequality seem justifiable. Toolan employs corpus linguistic and critical discourse analytic methods to identify changing lexis and verbal patterns and gaps, all of which contribute to the way wealth inequality was represented in each of the decades from the 1970s to the present.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Analysing the Evolving Press Discourse of Contemporary UK Inequality: 1. Increased wealth inequality in the UK\u003cbr\u003e 2. Why does increasing wealth inequality matter?\u003cbr\u003e 3. Facts, discourse, myths\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Ethical' differentiation\u003cbr\u003e 5. Inequality as 'British' once more\u003cbr\u003e 6. Why The Times and the Daily Mail?\u003cbr\u003e 7. Spreading the word about the new inequality: the news media\u003cbr\u003e 8. Landmarks in the politics of language tradition\u003cbr\u003e 9. Language-oriented critical discourse analysis: a brief survey\u003cbr\u003e 10. Corpus linguistic methods for exploring the ideology in discourse\u003cbr\u003e 11. Theoretical and methodological assumptions of this study\u003cbr\u003e 12. Brief outline of the chapters\u003cbr\u003e 13. Political affiliations\u003cbr\u003e Part II. What's Fair and Unfair in The Times: 14. The language of fairness\u003cbr\u003e 15. Why concentrate on fair and unfair?\u003cbr\u003e 16. The 1971 and 2011 selections of fair and unfair stories\u003cbr\u003e 17. A national lottery\u003cbr\u003e 18. Industrial relations in 1971: strikes and unfair dismissal\u003cbr\u003e 19. Industrial relations in 2011: the burdens of employment law and 'abuse' of tribunals\u003cbr\u003e 20. Mr Marples's manifesto for the control of fair incomes\u003cbr\u003e 21. The squeezed middle and fair pay in 2011\u003cbr\u003e 22. Fair rents, fair housing\u003cbr\u003e 23. Pensions 'reform'\u003cbr\u003e 24. Fair and unfair in other contexts\u003cbr\u003e 25. Conclusions\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Budgets and Burdens, from Barber to Osborne: 26. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 27. Style and genre differences between Barber 1971 and Osborne 2011\u003cbr\u003e 28. Lexical contrasts\u003cbr\u003e 29. We in Osborne\u003cbr\u003e 30. Fair and help in Osborne\u003cbr\u003e 31. Taxation\u003cbr\u003e 32. The disappearing burden of taxation\u003cbr\u003e 33. Chancellors' metaphors and the stories they tell: ruts and dust versus the march of the makers\u003cbr\u003e 34. The editorial reception of the Barber and Osborne budgets in The Times and the Daily Mail\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. Peter Black, Christopher Stevens, Class and Britain: 35. The TV reviewer as spokesperson of everyday ideology: Peter Black and Christopher Stevens\u003cbr\u003e 36. General topics in Black and Stevens Compared\u003cbr\u003e 37. Methodology\u003cbr\u003e 38. Peter Black on class\u003cbr\u003e 39. Class and other values in Christopher Stevens, 2013\u003cbr\u003e 40. Equal and fair in CS and PB\u003cbr\u003e 41. Coronation Street, sex and race, then and now\u003cbr\u003e 42. Key semantic domains in Black's and Stevens's journalism: a comparative analysis\u003cbr\u003e 43. The meanings of Britain and the British then (in PB) and now (in CS)\u003cbr\u003e 44. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Forty-Five Years of Luddite Behaviour: 45. Ned Ludd and Robin Hood\u003cbr\u003e 46. The Luddites\u003cbr\u003e 47. Luddite and Luddites: grammar, meaning, and frequency\u003cbr\u003e 48. Luddite in the early 1970s in The Times: a preliminary survey\u003cbr\u003e 49. Luddite\/Luddites used politically in The Times and the Mail during the first Thatcher term\u003cbr\u003e 50. Luddite\/s after June 1983\u003cbr\u003e 51. The Miners' Strike of 1984-5\u003cbr\u003e 52. Concluding remarks: the Luddite narrative\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Forty-Five Years of Robin Hood: 53. Powerful names\u003cbr\u003e 54. Robin Hood in The Times: preliminary profile\u003cbr\u003e 55. Robin Hood in the Daily Mail: preliminary profile\u003cbr\u003e 56. Robin Hood in the 1970s\u003cbr\u003e 57. Grunwick\u003cbr\u003e 58. Robin Hood in Mrs Thatcher's 1980s and John Major's 1990s\u003cbr\u003e 59. Keynes, not Robin Hood\u003cbr\u003e 60. Bishops more progressive than Labour\u003cbr\u003e 61. Gordon Brown as (nearly) Robin Hood: the New Labour years (1997 to 2010)\u003cbr\u003e 62. Robin Hood since 2010\u003cbr\u003e 63. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Part VII. 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