TY - BOOK AU - Bell Allan TI - The Language of News Media / Language in Society 17 SN - 631164340 PY - 1991/// PB - Blackwell N2 - Based in the frameworks of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis, this book draws together a growing research literature and informs it with the author's own immediate observations and experience as both journalist and researcher. List of Figures and Table, Editor's Preface, Introduction and Acknowledgements, Media and Language, Researching Media Language, The Production of News Language, Authoring and Editing the News Text, The Audience for Media Language, Styling the News: Audience Design, Talking Strange: Referee Design in Media Language, Telling Stories, Make-Up of the News Story, Telling It Like It Isn't, (Miss )Understanding the News, Notes, References, Index ER -