Language of News Media, Paperback by Bell, Allan, ISBN 0631164359, ISBN-13 9780631164357, Brand New, Free shipping in the US

Written by a linguist who is himself a journalist, this is a uniquely informed account of the language of the news media. Based in the frameworks of sociolinguistics and discourse analysis its concerns are with the notion of the news story, the importance of the processes which produce media language and the role of the audience.