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    Reported speech as an element of argumentative newspaper discourse.Alla Vitaljevna Smirnova - 2009 - Discourse and Communication 3 (1):79-103.
    The present article deals with reported speech as an element of argumentation in the newspaper discourse of Great Britain viewed in the unity of its syntactic and semantic characteristics and argumentative functions. Theoretically, the research is based on the dialogic understanding of quotations, the dialogue theory by Bakhtin and contemporary argumentation theory. The proposed integral approach to reported speech combining linguistics with logic and argumentation theory revealed the relations between purely linguistic characteristics of reported speech with its functioning (...)
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    Patterns of discourse semantics: A corpus-assisted study of financial crisis in British newspaper discourse in 2009.Melani Schröter & Petra Storjohann - 2015 - Pragmatics and Society 6 (1):43-66.
    Corpus-assisted analyses of public discourse often focus on the lexical level. This article argues in favour of corpus-assisted analyses of discourse, but also in favour of conceptualising salient lexical items in public discourse in a more determined way. It draws partly on non-Anglophone academic traditions in order to promote a conceptualisation of discourse keywords, thereby highlighting how their meaning is determined by their use in discourse contexts. It also argues in favour of emphasising the cognitive (...)
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    Conflicting centres within the Russian state: disjuncture and contradiction in Burjat newspaper discourse[REVIEW]Eleanor Peers - 2011 - Studies in East European Thought 63 (2):123-133.
    This article examines the role the public imagination of the state has in maintaining the current political status quo in Burjatija, an east Siberian Republic. Based on a quantitative and interpretative analysis of Burjatija’s local newspapers, it uses the ‘centre-versus-periphery’ paradigm to identify varying representations of the Republic’s territorial community in government legitimization discourse, before discussing their assimilation into popular newspaper discourse. Multiple narratives of Burjatija and the Russian Federation exist in these newspapers, incorporating various centres and (...)
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    Discourse analysis on newspaper reports of apostasy cases.Azweed Mohamad, Radzuwan Ab Rashid, Kamariah Yunus, Shireena Basree Abdul Rahman, Saadiyah Darus, Razali Musa & Kamarul Shukri Mat Teh - 2017 - Journal for the Study of Religions and Ideologies 16 (48):96-111.
    This paper aims to provide insights into the Malaysian newspaper reports on apostasy cases in the country. Being a Muslim country with multi-religions, apostasy is highly sensitive hence any issues related to apostasy need to be carefully managed. Four keywords were used to identify newspaper reports for the analysis. Two newspaper reports met the selection criteria and were analysed using a discourse analysis approach focusing on Grammatical Analysis, Macrostructures, and Rhetorical Structures. The analysis reveals that the (...)
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    A critical discourse analysis of British national newspaper representations of the academic level of nurse education: too clever for our own good?Karen Gillett - 2012 - Nursing Inquiry 19 (4):297-307.
    GILLETT K. Nursing Inquiry 2012; 19: 297–307 A critical discourse analysis of British national newspaper representations of the academic level of nurse education: too clever for our own good?This critical discourse analysis examines articles about the academic level of nurse education that appeared in British national newspapers between 1999 and 2009. British newspaper journalists regularly attribute problems with recruitment into nursing and nursing care to the increasing academic nature of nurse education. It is impossible to separate (...)
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  6. Discourse of Death J The Function of the Local Newspaper.Helena Halmari & Jan-Ola Ostman - forthcoming - Techne.
     
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    Discourses of tragedy: a comparative corpus-based study of newspaper reportage of the Berkeley balcony collapse and Carrickmines fire.Fergal Quinn & Elaine Vaughan - 2019 - Critical Discourse Studies 16 (3):330-346.
    ABSTRACTHierarchies of information –inclusion, omission and presentation of society and its citizenry – is a critical aspect of news presentation. This paper looks at newspaper reportage of two tragic events in 2015: a balcony collapse in Berkeley, USA, in which six Irish students died; and a fire at a halting site in Carrickmines, Ireland, which claimed the lives of four adults and six children who were members of the Irish Traveller community. This latter group are an officially recognised indigenous (...)
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    Discourses around climate change in Brazilian newspapers: 2003–2013.Carmen Dayrell - 2019 - Discourse and Communication 13 (2):149-171.
    Given the crucial role of the mass media in influencing public discourse, this study examines the discourses around climate change within the Brazilian press, covering the time period of 2003–2013. Survey evidence has shown that Brazilians’ degree of concern about climate change is higher than almost anywhere else, with nine out of 10 Brazilians considering climate change a serious problem. The primary purpose of this study is to investigate how the press engendered Brazilians’ striking level of climate change concern, (...)
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    Discourses about independence: A corpus-based analysis of discourse prosodies in Spanish and Catalan newspapers.Marcello Giugliano - 2022 - Discourse and Communication 16 (5):525-550.
    The present study is a corpus-assisted analysis of discourses on the Catalan movement of independence in the Catalan and Spanish press. A referendum for Catalan independence was held on 1 October 2017 but was not approved by the central Spanish government and was declared illegal. Spanish and Catalan newspapers differed considerably in their treatment and representation of the conflict, which also drew the attention of the international press to Catalonia. My analysis interconnects theoretical perspectives from linguistic critical discourse studies, (...)
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    Towards an integrated argumentative approach to multimodal critical discourse analysis: evidence from the portrayal of refugees and immigrants in Greek newspapers.Dimitris Serafis, Sara Greco, Chiara Pollaroli & Chiara Jermini-Martinez Soria - 2020 - Critical Discourse Studies 17 (5):545-565.
    This paper proposes a methodological synthesis in order to study multimodal media discourse and argumentation in the context of the so-called ‘refugee crisis’ in Greece. It follows the framework of Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis, integrating this with argumentation studies, with a particular emphasis on the analysis of inference. Our data come from the Greek newspapers Kathimerini and Ta Nea. We contend that the proposed methodological synergy enables scrutiny of (a) racist conceptualizations cultivated by the representation of migrants and (...)
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    Scepticism or conspiracy? A discourse analysis of anti-lockdown comments to online newspaper articles.Vanessa Tafi, Bryn Alexander Coles, Simon Goodman, Scott Yates & Christopher Elsey - 2024 - Critical Discourse Studies 21 (4):482-501.
    This paper addresses responses to news about the imposing of a local lockdown in a UK city. The opposition to the measure shows it to be controversial as does the associated rejection of the grounds for taking action against covid more generally, which comes alongside the devaluing of expertise, resistance to public health responses, a proliferation of conspiracy theories and misinformation and the harm that can be caused by focussing on non-adherence to covid measure. The research question for this analysis (...)
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    Mediated Psychopathy—A Critical Discourse Analysis of Newspaper Representations of Aggression.Roland Paulsen - 2010 - Kritike 4 (2):60-86.
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    The Newspaper as an Epideictic Meeting Point : On the Epidictic Nature of the Newspaper Argumentation.Fernando López Pan - 2015 - Argumentation 29 (3):285-303.
    This article shows how epideictic rhetoric and argumentation may be interrelated in a general-interest newspaper framed as a single discourse produced by a collective author. In more specific terms, the view advanced here is that newspaper as whole has an epideictic dimension which, in terms of argumentation, is the fundamental or predominant one. The usefulness of this approach is twofold. In terms of rhetoric, to explore the applicability of epideictic rhetoric to journalistic discourse; and in the (...)
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    Navigating the digital classroom: a qualitative content analysis of MOOC discourses in Indian e-newspapers.Rahul Rajan Lexman, Gopinath Krishnan, Rupashree Baral & Shameem Cina Thomas - 2024 - Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 22 (4):494-516.
    Purpose This paper aims to explore and unravel the contents portrayed in online news discourses on massive open online courses (MOOCs). Considering sociological dimensions and journalistic strategies, this study examines how online news media reflects, shapes and informs narratives about the social acceptance and use of the MOOC model of learning. Design/methodology/approach Using the Gioia methodology as the overarching framework, this study adopted a two-staged qualitative content analysis of 1,162 online news items from the websites of the top seven online (...)
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    The putative addressee in the persuasion of diplomatic discourse: China’s communication efforts through South African English-language newspapers.Liping Tang - 2021 - Discourse and Communication 15 (4):458-475.
    This article explores the putative addressee in the persuasion of diplomatic discourse by adopting White’s recent proposals as to putative reader/addressee positioning to specifically examine China’s communication efforts through South African English-language newspapers in the Xi Jinping era. Likemindedness is found to be predominantly construed, meticulously balanced with relative frequent construal of uncommittedness and very rare construal of un-likemindedness. And a set of 12 interrelated discourses are identified as fundamental ideological tenets in legitimating China’s African engagement and its vision (...)
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    Competing discursive constructions of China’s smog in Chinese and Anglo-American English-language newspapers: A corpus-assisted discourse study.Chaoyuan Li & Ming Liu - 2017 - Discourse and Communication 11 (4):386-403.
    This article presents a corpus-assisted discourse study of the representations of China’s smog in one Chinese and three Anglo-American English-language newspapers from 2011 to 2014. The findings suggest that they converge in representing China’s smog as a kind of severe air pollution that has some consequences on residents in China and poses a problem that the government must tackle. However, the Chinese English-language newspaper prefers to represent it as a kind of weather phenomenon without serious impact on public (...)
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    National newspapers’ role in national integration and their coverage of ethnic issues in karachi.Imtiaz Ahmed & Tahir Masood - 2017 - Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities 56 (1):87-100.
    The research aims to see as to how identity discourse of national dallies contributes to the process of national integration by analyzing newspapers’ coverage of ethnic issues in the communally-battered Karachi. For the purpose, two major Urdu and English newspapers in Jang and Dawn published in 2007, 2008 and 2009 are selected for textual analysis; with the May 12, 2007 ethnic carnage being in spotlight. The findings are a mixed bag containing both positives and negatives. Apart from increased realization (...)
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    Turkish newspapers’ role in winning votes and exasperating Turkish–Kurdish relations: The Ağrı shootings.Ece Nur Kaya & Lyndon C. S. Way - 2016 - Discourse and Communication 10 (1):82-100.
    Relations between Turkish authorities and their Kurdish minority have been a source of conflict for decades. On 11 April 2015, in the run-up to Turkey’s parliamentary elections, a gunfight broke out in the south-eastern province of Ağrı, resulting in six Kurdish people being killed and four Turkish military personnel wounded. Although skirmishes like this are not unusual, this caught the public imagination as it became clear that Kurdish civilians had helped wounded Turkish soldiers after the shoot-out. The government denied such (...)
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    Textual Representation and Intertextuality of Graphene in Swedish Newspapers.Max Boholm - 2020 - NanoEthics 14 (2):185-204.
    Textual representation of graphene in Sweden’s most circulated newspapers is analyzed in 229 articles from 2004 to 2018. What is and is not said about graphene is explored through systematically identifying the lexical and grammatical patterns of sentences using the word “graphene.” Graphene is said to be a super material with certain properties, to be an object of research, commercialization, and application, and to have societal significance. Given frequent classifications of graphene as a nanomaterial in scientific discourse, there is (...)
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    The ‘Black Pete’ debate in Flemish newspapers: from conflict to moderation.Martina Temmerman & Belinda Tournet - forthcoming - Critical Discourse Studies.
    In recent years, a lot of academic attention has been paid to the public discussion on ‘Black Pete’ (Zwarte Piet) in the Low Countries. Black Pete is a much-debated blackface character which is part of the Saint-Nicholas tradition – a yearly festive event taking place at the beginning of December associated with gifts and celebration. ‘Tradition’ versus ‘racism’ seem to be the main arguments in the debate. The current study analyses the debate as it evolved in Flanders from 2012 until (...)
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    The Dirt on "White Slavery": The Construction of Prostitution Narratives in Early Twentieth-Century American Newspapers.Erin Gallagher-Cohoon - 2014 - Constellations (University of Alberta Student Journal) 5 (1).
    The paper "The Dirt on 'White Slavery': The Construction of Prostitution Narratives in Early Twentieth-Century America" analyses the development of white slavery discourses in Progressive Era newspapers, reform books and trial records. White slavery involved both gendered and racialized fears of coercive prostitution. These prostitution narratives are used to uncover early twentieth-century American perceptions of appropriate femininity, inherent female weakness, and the sexual threat of racial and ethnic minorities.
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    Stance, inter/subjectivity and identity in discourse.Marín Arrese, I. Juana, Laura Hidalgo-Downing & Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla (eds.) - 2023 - New York: Peter Lang.
    The volume addresses a variety of issues on Stance and Inter/Subjectivity, and the expression of Identity in discourse. It focuses on the multifaceted nature of stance, and the use of resources of epistemicity, effectivity, and evaluation and metaphor, as well as other dimensions within the domain of stance, such as mirativity, emotion and attribution. In this way it provides a more in-depth and a wider perspective into the nature of stance. The contributions feature the use of stance resources in (...)
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    Discursive strategies in newspaper campaign advertisements for Nigeria’s 2011 elections.Rotimi Taiwo & Mohammed Ademilokun - 2013 - Discourse and Communication 7 (4):435-455.
    This article discusses the discursive strategies used in some newspaper campaign advertisements for Nigeria’s 2011 elections with a view to unveiling the socio-political motifs and messages of the adverts. Data for the study comprised 60 full-page newspaper election campaign adverts of the two strongest political parties in the country: the People’s Democratic Party and Action Congress of Nigeria published between February and April 2011, a period that can be referred to as the peak period of electioneering campaigns for (...)
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    Discursive patterns of anti-feminism and pro-feminism in Arabic newspapers of the KACST corpus.Sultan Almujaiwel - 2017 - Discourse and Communication 11 (5):441-466.
    This article presents the results of an analysis of the large-scale processed texts of Arabic newspapers in the King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology Arabic Corpus Project. I adopted methods modified from the Biber Connor Upton Approach to retrieve the expanded concordances of the lexical units almarᵓa and alnisāᵓ from the corpus. The extracted text reveals the discursive patterns regarding a number of topics which are discussed in Arabic newspapers, namely, socio-culture and eco-politics. The results of the study show (...)
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  25. Argumentation in Discourse: A Socio-discursive Approach to Arguments.Ruth Amossy - 2009 - Informal Logic 29 (3):252-267.
    Rather than the art of putting forward logically valid arguments leading to Truth, argumentation is here viewed as the use of verbal means ensuring an agreement on what can be considered reasonable by a given group, on a more or less controversial matter. What is acceptable and plausible is always coconstructed by subjects engaging in verbal interaction. It is the dynamism of this exchange, realized not only in natural language, but also in a specific cultural framework, that has to be (...)
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  26. Representing reality: discourse, rhetoric and social construction.Jonathan Potter - 1996 - Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
    How is reality really manufactured? The idea of social construction has become a commonplace part of much social research, yet precisely what is constructed, how it is constructed, and what constructionism means are often left unclear or taken for granted. In this major work, Jonathan Potter explores the central themes raised by these questions. Representing Reality explores the different traditions in constructivist thought--including sociology of scientific knowledge; conversation analysis and ethnomethodology; and semiotics, poststructuralism, and postmodernism--to provide a lucid introduction to (...)
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    Anti-populist discourse in Greece and Argentina in the 21st century.G. Markou - 2021 - Journal of Political Ideologies 26 (2):201-219.
    In recent years, especially after the outbreak of the economic crisis, the phenomenon of populism has returned to the forefront. Populism is all around us, on the front pages of the newspapers, in the political repertoire, in academic papers. Politicians, journalists and researchers discuss this phenomenon, try to define it, examine its principal features and analyse its relationship with democracy. A large part of the mainstream parties and politicians have succeeded, through a strong anti-populist rhetoric, in consolidating the idea that (...)
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    Book review: Monika Bednarek, evaluation in media discourse: Analysis of a newspaper corpus. London: Continuum, 2006, 253 pp. [REVIEW]Tatjana Radanović Felberg - 2008 - Discourse Studies 10 (6):817-819.
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    Voices from the Newspaper Club: Patient Life at a State Psychiatric Hospital.Emily Beckman, Elizabeth Nelson & Modupe Labode - 2020 - Journal of Medical Humanities 43 (1):179-195.
    The authors conducted a qualitative analysis of thirty-seven issues of The DDU Review, a newsletter produced by residents of the Dual Diagnosis Unit, a residential unit for people who had diagnoses of developmental disability and serious mental illness in the Central State Hospital. The analysis of the newsletters produced between September 1988 and June 1992 revealed three major themes: 1) the mundane; 2) good behavior; and 3) advocacy. Contrary to the authors’ expectations, the discourse of medicalization—such as relations with (...)
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    Discourses on Countering Violent Extremism: The Strategic Interplay Between Fear and Security After 9/11.Michael Stohl, Benjamin Smith & Musa Al-Gharbi - forthcoming - Critical Studies on Terrorism.
    This article explores the construction of extremism in media discourse, the factors driving specific constructions and the implications of these constructions for counterterrorism policy. We contend that extremism has predominantly and increasingly been framed as a security issue. This article explores the implications of this practice through the framework of securitisation. We measure the average intensity of security framing in 38,616 articles found in three major US newspapers, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Los Angeles Times, between 20 (...)
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    The quest for truth: The use of discursive and rhetorical resources in newspaper coverage of the (mis)treatment of young Swedish gymnasts.Helena Blomberg & Jonas Stier - 2016 - Discourse and Communication 10 (1):65-81.
    In 2012, the Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter published a series of articles criticising Swedish national level gymnastics for being abusive. This text analyses the subsequent debate by identifying the discursive and rhetorical resources used by the involved parties. The analysis shows how the parties negotiate accountability, manage dilemmas of stake and what the possible social consequences of these are. Five narratives are singled out in the debate: the counter narrative, the victim narrative, the defence-speech narrative, the expert narrative and (...)
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    Evidentiality in Chinese newspaper reports: subjectivity/objectivity as a factor.Chia-Ling Hsieh - 2008 - Discourse Studies 10 (2):205-229.
    This article aims to discover the principle that underlies correlations between choices of evidential qualification and the communicative purposes of Chinese newspaper reportage along the dimension of subjectivity/objectivity. Distributional comparisons of data from the China Times news website reveal a pragmatic distinction between evidential subclasses. Reportatives predominate in politics and business news, where objectivity carries higher weight, while in less objectivity-oriented reports as local news, sensories are of greater frequency. The latter is also prevalent as journalists reflect on a (...)
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    Discourses of Charisma: Barack Obama’s First 6 Months as the President of the USA. [REVIEW]Tuomo Takala, Sanja Tanttu, Anna-Maija Lämsä & Aila Virtanen - 2013 - Journal of Business Ethics 115 (1):149-166.
    This study aims to investigate discourses of the charisma of Barack Obama in articles in a leading Finnish newspaper during the first 6 months of his presidency. The results show that the media created a very enthusiastic atmosphere around Obama. His charisma was built up mostly around his person, with the emphasis on an exceptional personality, life story and behaviour. In addition, the various crises that arose were used to reinforce the picture of Obama as charismatic. The findings undermine (...)
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    The Syrian refugee crisis in Scandinavian newspapers.Jostein Gripsrud, Hilmar Mjelde & Jan Fredrik Hovden - 2018 - Communications 43 (3):325-356.
    This article maps and analyzes quantitatively how the Scandinavian news press covered the 2015 Syrian refugee crisis. Our analysis shows that in the coverage of the migration events, Denmark and Sweden occupy polar positions in terms of their newspapers’ emphasis, with the former appearing more negative towards the refugees, and the latter more positive. The Norwegian case is found in between these. Danish print media more often mention the negative economic consequences of the arrivals, and Swedish the positive moral ones, (...)
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    Uber’s entrepreneurship discourse and its neoliberal appeal: analysis of coverage in English-language dailies in India.Smeeta Mishra & Dharma Raju Bathini - 2019 - Critical Discourse Studies 17 (4):394-411.
    This study examines how the top two English-language newspapers in India constructed the entrepreneurship discourse used by online cab aggregator firm, Uber Technology Inc., in India, its second-la...
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    From Russia with Love?: Newspaper Coverage of Cross-Border Prostitution in Northern Norway, 1990—2001.Dag Stenvoll - 2002 - European Journal of Women's Studies 9 (2):143-162.
    The article examines national news reports on prostitution of Russian women in northern Norway between 1990 and 2001. Applying critical discourse analysis, the author shows how this particular type of cross-border, rural prostitution is represented as sexual transaction, as a sociopolitical problem, and as a symbolic issue used to legitimize stricter border controls. Images of prostitutes, pimps and customers are also discussed. The different thematizations are in turn connected to various historical practices of state regulation of sexuality, to constructions (...)
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    Patterns of schematic structure and strategic features in newspaper editorials: A comparative study of American and Malaysian editorials.Helen Tan & Sahar Zarza - 2016 - Discourse and Communication 10 (6):635-657.
    To carry a message through effectively to the public, newspaper editors need to employ the generic pattern of editorials as a rule of thumb. Yet few studies have investigated the schematic structure and persuasive style of editorials. Hence, this study aims to compare the generic characteristics in 240 editorials of The New York Times and New Straits Times. To realize the objectives, the corpus was subjected to a content analysis based on a composite framework drawn from the data and (...)
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  38. The Reification of Celebrity: Global Newspaper Coverage of the Death of David Bowie.Jack Black - 2017 - International Review of Sociology 27 (1):202-224.
    This paper examines global English language newspaper coverage of the death of David Bowie. Drawing upon the concept of reification, it is argued that the notion of celebrity is discursively (re)produced and configured through a ‘public face’ that is defined, maintained and shaped via media reports and public responses that aim to know and reflect upon celebrity. In this paper, the findings highlight how Bowie’s reification was supported by discourses that represented him as an observable, reified form. Here, Bowie’s (...)
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    Metaphor and ideology: Conceptual structure and conceptual content in Spanish political discourse.Marina Díaz-Peralta - 2018 - Discourse and Communication 12 (2):128-148.
    This article presents the results of the analysis of a number of linguistic metaphors found in a corpus of opinion articles published in the Spanish newspaper El País. The authors included in the corpus, who tend towards the left of the political spectrum, use metaphor to express moral judgements on the actions and decisions of the conservative, centre-right People’s party, which governs Spain with an overall majority. With the aim of describing this discourse, we have undertaken a qualitative (...)
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    Discursive construction and transformation of ‘us’ and ‘them’ categories in the newspaper coverage on the US anti-ballistic missile system: Polish versus Russian view.Tatiana Dubrovskaya & Agnieszka Sowińska - 2012 - Discourse and Communication 6 (4):449-468.
    The present study explores discursive constructions of us- and them-groups within the context of the debates on the placement of the US anti-ballistic missile defence system in Central and Eastern Europe. The study is based on the data collected by the authors in the Polish and Russian press. Using the framework that is informed by Critical Discourse Analysis and Membership Categorization Analysis, the authors define strategies and specific linguistic means used to represent ‘us’ and ‘them’ and provide a picture (...)
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    Perspectives on North and South: The 2012 financial crisis in Spain seen through two major British newspapers.Ruth Breeze - 2014 - Discourse and Communication 8 (3):241-259.
    The world financial crisis of 2008 reached a head in the Eurozone in 2012, when major problems became apparent affecting several countries in Southern Europe. During this time, the British press focused particularly on Spain, watching the potentially volatile political situation with interest, and documenting the negotiations between Spanish and European leaders. This article considers how this situation was reported in two British newspapers, The Guardian and The Independent, applying corpus linguistics techniques to identify salient aspects of the crisis and (...)
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    Refugees in the news: Comparing Belgian and Swedish newspaper coverage of the European refugee situation during summer 2015.Leen D’Haenens, Willem Joris, Valeriane Mistiaen, Lutgard Lams, Ebba Sundin, Stefan Mertens & Rozane De Cock - 2018 - Communications 43 (3):301-323.
    This comparative content analysis of Belgian and Swedish newspaper coverage of the ‘refugee situation’ in 2015 (N=898) revolves around responsibility indicators, news actor characteristics, and thematic emphasis. As they are a potential influential factor in the public-opinion formation process, the studying of media portrayals is an essential first step in investigating the dynamic interplay between media discourse and societal reactions. Belgium and Sweden differ with respect to migration policy, integration indicators, and the number of incoming refugees. They also (...)
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    Constructing legitimation in Scottish newspapers: The case of the independence referendum.María Luisa Carrió-Pastor & Francisco Alonso-Almeida - 2019 - Discourse Studies 21 (6):621-635.
    This study is concerned with the use of epistemic legitimising strategies in online newspaper articles dealing with the Scottish referendum. In this sense, we seek to explore cases of epistemic stance that indicate epistemological positioning and persuade readers of the veracity of propositions. Our study covers Scottish journal articles published online within 5 days prior to results day. In this article, we are interested in the way the Scottish newspapers deal with the topic of the independence referendum and the (...)
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    Moral muting in US newspaper op-eds debating the attack on Iraq.Alexander Nikolaev & Douglas V. Porpora - 2008 - Discourse and Communication 2 (2):165-184.
    This article examines a distinct form of moral argumentation found to be common in a corpus of 500 editorials and opinion pieces written in 23 US newspapers and news magazines between August and October 2002 debating whether or not the US should attack Iraq. The purpose of the article is to delineate this communicative phenomenon, which we call moral muting. Moral muting occurs when a message either blunts the moral considerations involved in a case or presents an equivocal moral meaning. (...)
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    Intertextual aspects of Chinese newspaper commentaries on the events of 9/11.Wei Wang - 2008 - Discourse Studies 10 (3):361-381.
    This article explores intertextual aspects of Chinese newspaper commentaries on the events of 11 September 2001. Newspaper commentaries in China are often a hybrid genre that combines the characteristics of comprehensive news reports and opinion articles. Informed by genre theories and discussions of intertextuality in different disciplines, this article examines the micro-genres of the data collected and investigates how the Chinese writers include and use outside sources and how they position themselves as writers in relation to other sources. (...)
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    Media discourse in China and Japan on the COVID-19 pandemic: comparative analysis of the first three months.Gulsan Ara Parvin, Md Habibur Rahman, S. M. Reazul Ahsan, Md Anwarul Abedin & Mrittika Basu - 2022 - Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society 20 (2):308-328.
    Purpose This study aims to analyze how English-language versions of e-newspapers in the first two countries affected, China and Japan, which are non-English-speaking countries and have different socio-economic and political settings, have highlighted Coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic news and informed the global community. Design/methodology/approach A text-mining approach was used to explore experts’ thoughts as published by the two leading English-language newspapers in China and Japan from January to March 2020. This study analyzes the Opinion section, which mainly comprises editorial and (...)
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    ‘Malaysia belongs to the Malays’ (Malaysia ni Melayu Punya!): Categorising ‘us’ and ‘them’ in Malaysia’s mainstream Malay-language newspapers.Siti Nurnadilla Mohamad Jamil - 2021 - Critical Discourse Studies 18 (6):671-687.
    ABSTRACT Malaysia’s 13th general election in 2013 was the final election where the longest-serving elected government in the world, Barisan Nasional, regained power, before it was ousted after over six decades of authoritarian rule in 2018. In a country that practises parliamentary democracy but simultaneously observed close cooperation between the then ruling coalition and the mainstream press, this paper shows the micro-politics of the driving force of the coalition, United Malays National Organisation – specifically, how anxiety regarding the maintenance of (...)
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    Assessing the rationality of argumentation in media discourse and public opinion: An exploratory study of the conflict over a smoke-free law in Ticino.Peter J. Schulz, Uwe Hartung & Maddalena Fiordelli - 2011 - Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication 3 (1):83-110.
    This article holds that ability to support one’s opinions with arguments, awareness of the arguments for other opinions, and insight into the superiority of some arguments are basic requirements for rational discourse. Based on a content analysis of Swiss Italian newspaper coverage of a controversy over a smoke-free law introduced and finally implemented in the canton of Ticino in 2007 and on a five-wave panel survey of public opinion on the issue, the article describes elements of the argumentative (...)
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    The case of Mesut Özil: A symbol of (non-) integration? An analysis of German print media discourses on integration.Eva Schmidt & Martina Möllering - 2022 - Discourse and Communication 16 (3):326-345.
    This paper examines how German media discourses reflect debates around integration, based on a newspaper corpus spanning the period 2008–2018. Considering these discourses, our research interest is focussed on how integration is constructed as a responsibility of those who are expected to integrate into society. To analyze how media might play a role in reproducing essentialist constructions of difference, we present a case study that combines methodologies of corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis, and that examines discursive practices (...)
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    Producing ME/CFS in Dutch Newspapers. A Social-Discursive Analysis About Non/credibility.Marjolein Lotte de Boer & Jenny Slatman - 2023 - Social Epistemology 37 (5):592-609.
    Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) is a highly contested illness. This paper analyzes the discursive production of knowledge about, and recognition of ME/CFS. By mobilizing insights from social epistemology and epistemic injustice studies, this paper reveals how actors, through their social-discursive practices, attribute to establishing, sustaining, and disregarding their own and others’ epistemological position. In focusing on the case of the Dutch newspaper reporting about ME/CFS, this paper shows that the debate about this condition predominantly revolves around the (...)
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