News Analysis: Case Studies of international and National by Teun A. van Dijk

By Teun A. van Dijk

First released in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa corporation.

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A serious formulation of such questions and answers would require an entire monograph. Presented here is a rough outline that will be relevant for analyses in the subsequent chapters, focusing on those aspects that have been neglected in previous research. Linking news texts with societal ma- 1. THE ANALYSIS OF NEWS AS DISCOURSE 19 crostructures in general, and with news production institutions such as the mass media in particular, requires a theoretical strategy that proceeds stepwise through different levels.

Morphonological, syntactic and lexical), contextual information from ongoing interaction, properties of the social situation, and various types of knowledge representations in memory. Similarly, for the analysis of syntactic information of sentences, or of the schematic forms of texts, meaning and knowledge may again be used. These processes work both bottom up and top clown; that is, they use concrete (local) information to build larger, more abstract or higher level structures, and, conversely, use such higher level structures to derive expectations about which concrete information is most likely to come.

An additional and rhetorically more defensible reason was the assumed poor management at UNESCO. It has been noted on several occasions that as long as the Western countries dominated UNESCO (during the first decades alter the Second World War) and imposed their policies and values, they did not feel the organization had become politicized (Schiller, 1981). In other words, the ideological and cultural debate covers a more fundamental political and economic controversy (Schiller, 1973). Power and dominance over increasingly important resources (information and communication) are at stake, and some Western govemments (notably the Reagan and Thatcher administrations) are able to use their economic power (contribution to UNESCO) as a compensation for their present lack of a majority vote.

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