Evaluation in Media Discourse: Analysis of a Newspaper Corpus

Introduction I. Evaluation and newspaper discourse 1. Analysing evaluation in the news 2. The news story in its context 3. Delimiting evaluation 4. A new theory of evaluation II. Evaluation in the press: a corpus-based analysis 5. Evaluation in the press: a corpus-based pragmatic analysis III. Empirical and theoretical issues 6. Evaluation: broadsheets vs. tabloids 7. Implications for a new theory of evaluation References Appendices.