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Summary: In a world in which advanced communication technologies have made the reporting of disasters and conflicts (also in the form of breaking news) a familiar and 'normalised' activity, the information we present here about television news reporting of the 2003 war in Iraq has implications that go beyond this particular conflict. Evaluation and Stance in War News functions as a tool kit for the critical evaluation of language in the news, both as raw data in need of interpretation and as carefully packaged products of 'information management' in need of 'unpacking'. The chapters offer an array of t

Discourse analysis --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 --- Mass media and language --- Television broadcasting of news --- Language and mass media --- Language and languages --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Mass media and the war --- English language --- Pragmatics --- Mass communications --- United States --- Great Britain --- Italy --- Discourse analysis. --- Mass media and the war. --- Grossbritannien. --- Italien. --- USA. --- Iraq War, 2003-2011 - Mass media and the war --- Television broadcasting of news - Great Britain --- Television broadcasting of news - Italy --- Television broadcasting of news - United States --- Mass media and language - Great Britain --- Mass media and language - Italy --- Mass media and language - United States --- United States of America