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Standing out on Critical Issues: Evaluation in Large Verbal-visual Displays in Australian Broadsheets

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This chapter explores the evaluative effect of large images and bold words in striking ‘verbal-visual displays’ (Keeble, 2006, p. 219) once associated only with magazine or tabloid journalism, but now commonplace in media contexts of all kinds. Such displays, referred to here as ‘standouts’ (Economou, 2008, 2009, 2010), typically comprise the following three parts:

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Economou, D. (2012). Standing out on Critical Issues: Evaluation in Large Verbal-visual Displays in Australian Broadsheets. In: Bowcher, W.L. (eds) Multimodal Texts from Around the World. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230355347_11

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