Language and Crime: Constructing Offenders and Victims in Newspaper Reports

By Ulrike Tabbert

Chapter 1: Crime news and what this book is about.- Chapter 2: Critical Stylistics.- Chapter 3: Naming and describing offenders and victims.- Chapter 4: Representing actions, events and states through the predicator.- Chapter 5: Equivalence, opposition, enumeration, prioritising and implied meaning.- Chapter 6: Hypothesising, negation and presenting others' speech.- Chapter 7: Deixis and metaphor.- Chapter 8: Analysing a newspaper report on crime by means of Critical Stylistics.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137453508
• ISBN13: 9781137453501
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 239 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 8.6" x 6.3"