Approaches to Media Texts

Wodak, Ruth; Busch, Brigitta

doi:10.4135/9781412976077.n6

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“…van Leeuwen, 1996), as well as other categories of discourse-analytic examinations of press and media discourse (cf. Krzyżanowski, 2003;Oberhuber et al, 2005;Wodak and Busch, 2004;Wodak and Krzyżanowski, 2008). 7 Qualitative Analysis * Key Findings…”

Section: Research Design and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 91%

Europe in Crisis?

Krzyżanowski¹

2009

Journalism Studies

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Section: Research Design and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 91%

Europe in Crisis?

Krzyżanowski¹

2009

Journalism Studies

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“…Although traditionally media discourse is defined as an institutional discourse mostly based on the informative function of language (Wodak and Busch 2004), any genre of media discourse can hardly be entirely informative, i.e. its certain genre or part of it must imply subjectivity (White 2004).…”

Section: Corpora and Methodologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Deictic Representations of Person in Media Discourse

Mammadov

2014

Lodz Papers in Pragmatics

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This paper aims to analyze the deictic representations of person in the British and American media discourse, mostly focusing on such genres and subgenres as newspaper articles, interviews, letters to editors, opinions, headlines and advertisements. For this purpose, we wish to introduce a theoretical framework for the study and then we hope to present certain ways in which deictic expressions (personal, possessive and reflexive pronouns) represent person. Theoretical framework for our study is based upon the socio-cognitive approach, which gives priority to individual practices and subjectivity over social practices in discourse as well as the definition of discourse based on knowledge. The reason why we focus on the media discourse is obvious. The high degree of personalized conceptualization and contextualization dominated by a large number of subjective factors prevail in the above-mentioned genres and subgenres of media discourse. The deictic representations of person play the key role in this process.

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“…The former recognises the syntactic contribution to textual cohesion, as compared to non-linguistic approaches that focus primarily on the semantic dimension of coherence (Wodak and Busch 2004). The latter references the pervasive role of language during the legal process (e.g.…”

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confidence: 99%

Culpability across borders: print media of the DSK affair from an SFL perspective

Tjondro

2014

Journal of World Languages

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This article explores the interactions between culture, linguistic choices and hard news journalistic practices, focusing on the Dominique Strauss-Kahn (DSK) affair of 2011 as the basis for a comparative analysis across three cultures: France, America and Guinea. The present study is motivated by the growing application of linguistic approaches to media studies and cross-cultural research, whose findings affirm the position that language is a resource capable of articulating and reproducing beliefs, judgments and even ideologies about social realities. Through the lens of systemic functional linguistics, patterns of linguistic choices that vary across the French and English language corpus are identified and then analysed with reference to the key discourses generated by the DSK affair. The results demonstrate the value of grammatical description in unveiling cultural, societal and individual ideologies that ordinarily have limited scope for expression in the hard news genre. Consequently, these findings suggest a tension between the presupposed neutrality of the legal process and the power of the media's rhetoric in its capacity as an additional yet covert trial participant.

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Approaches to Media Texts

Cited by 67 publications

References 37 publications

Europe in Crisis?

Europe in Crisis?

Deictic Representations of Person in Media Discourse

Culpability across borders: print media of the DSK affair from an SFL perspective

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