Chapter 1 Introduction
1.1 Rationales for the Present Study
1.1.1 Critical Intersections: Media Discourse, Ideology and Culture
1.1.2 Perspective as the Socio-Cognitive Interface Between Ideology and Media Discourse
1.2 Objectives of the Present Study
1.3 Clarifications of Some Key Notions
1.3.1 Media and Discourse
1.3.2 Mediation and Power
1.3.3 Mediation and Ideology
1.4 Organization of the Book
Chapter 2 Literature Review
2.1 Introduction
2.2 A Critical Ovewiew of Media Discourse Studies
2.2.1 The Critical Turn in the Studies of Media Discourse
2.2.2 Approaches to Critical Media Analysis
2.3 Contrastive Discourse Analysis
2.3.1 Contrastive Rhetoric: An Overview
2.3.2 Contrastive Text Linguisties/Contrastive Discourse Analysis
2.3.3 Critical Contrastive Discourse Analysis
2.3.4 A Brief Summary
2.4 An Overview of Empirical Contrastive Critical Studies in Media Discourses
2.5 Summary
Chapter 3 Perspective and Perspectivation: Theoretical Con
3.1 Introduciton
3.2 Perpspective and Perspectivation: A Literature Review
3.2.1 Perspective in Functional Linguistics
3.2.2 Perspective in Cognitive Linguistics
3.2.3 Graumann's Concept of Perspeetivity and Its Applications in Discourse Analysis
3.2.4 Summary
3.3 Refinements of a Socio-Cognitive Concept of Perspectivity
3.3.1 Some Fundamental Thoughts in the Conceptualization of Perspectivity
3.3.2 Redefining Perspectivity
3.3.3 Modeling Perspectivity
3.3.4 Some Defining Features of Perspectivity
3.3.5 Clarify the Notion of Context for the Present Study
3.3.6 Perspective: An Etlnomethodological Approach
3.4 Perspective and (inter) Subjectivity in Discourses
3.4.1 Perspective and Subjectivity
3.4.2 Perspective and Intersubjectivity
3.5 Categories of Perspectivity
3.5.1 An Overview of the Categorization of\