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Discuss basic semiotic concepts in the analysis of news texts. The analysis of news texts, and hence the semiotic concepts relating to it, is vital to our comprehension of the world around us, and the meaning we attribute to it, because as explained by Watson in chapter 4.1 of the reader (The news: gates, agendas and values), news is not a direct reflection of reality but a manufactured construct which goes through several selective phases before it eventuates in the forms we read it. In our Australian society, there are three main forms of news texts that we consume. These are: * Visual news texts - e.g newspapers, internet news sites * Audio news texts - e.g radio * Audio-visual news texts - e.g television In the analysis of news texts, we must analyse how the news is represented. Hall suggests that there are two systems of representation that we work with. Firstly he...

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