Covering Conflict: Between Universality and Cultural Specificity in News Discourse, Genre and Journalistic Style

Kopytowska, Monika

doi:10.1163/18773109-00702007

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“…The mediatised public sphere (cf. Kopytowska 2013Kopytowska , 2015a, which is created as a result of this process, constitutes an online space where members of society can exchange socio-political opinions, and collaborate in the construction of social reality via peer production. Its near-instantaneous, dialogic, and decentralised nature and interactivity make it an ultra-attractive site for extended socio-political debate.…”

Section: Monika Kopytowska Julita Woźniak and łUkasz Grabowskimentioning

confidence: 99%

Online Hate Speech in the European Union

Assimakopoulos

Baider

Millar

2017

SpringerBriefs in Linguistics

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Section: Monika Kopytowska Julita Woźniak and łUkasz Grabowskimentioning

confidence: 99%

Online Hate Speech in the European Union

Assimakopoulos

Baider

Millar

2017

SpringerBriefs in Linguistics

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“…The data were analysed drawing on some notions from Critical Discourse Analysis (Fairclough 1995, 2001, van Dijk 2006, 2009Weiss & Wodak 2007), studies of the discourse of the press and media linguistics (Bryant & Zillman 2002, Dobrosklonskaya 2020, Fowler 1991, Richardson 2007, Solopova & Saltykova 2019, among many others) and proximisation theory (Cap 2013, 2017, Kopytowska 2015a. We use Cap's definition of proximization and consider it a "discursive strategy of presenting physically and temporally distant events or state of affairs (including 'distant', i.e.…”

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Threat and fear: Pragmatic purposes of emotionalisation in media discourse

Ozyumenko

Иванович²,

Larina

et al. 2021

Russian Journal of Linguistics

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The impact of mass media on individuals and society is to a great extent based on emotions. We concentrate on fear as it is one of the basic emotions triggered by risk and threat, which is claimed to play a key role in the twenty-first century consciousness (Furedi 20018). The study focuses on the emotionalisation of fear in contemporary media discourse about Russia, more specifically, on constructions of Russian threat and fear of Russia in Anglo-American media texts to highlight pragmatic effects and to speculate on possible purposes of such discourses. The study aims to explore the functioning of the lexemes threat and fear , in textual contexts with the focus on their pragma-discursive characteristics. It identifies the mechanisms as well as linguistic tools involved in media strategies of scare-mongering. The dataset was derived from quality British and American newspapers in the period 2018-2020, and was analysed drawing on an interdisciplinary approach combining critical discourse analysis, pragmatics, medialinguistics, psycholinguistics and the theory of proximisation. The paper argues that appealing to emotions as well as constructing emotions is aimed at enhancing the persuasive function of media and fulfilling their own agenda. The persistent use of the words threat and fear in relation to Russia as well as the obsessive discussion of this topic in media aim to shape a certain negative public opinion of Russia among readerships. The findings show that to achieve this goal different strategies and linguistic tools are used including: exaggeration, repetition, proximisation, interrogative headlines, presupposition, among others. The results go beyond linguistics, and may find implementation in political studies, since they provide researchers with tools for understanding contemporary social and political processes.

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“…Social media have expanded the global public sphere past the geospatial and territorial limits of the traditional public sphere. Kopytowska (2013Kopytowska ( , 2015Kopytowska ( a, 2015bKopytowska ( , 2015c refers to this expansion as the mediated public sphere, in which the netizens (citizens of the mediated public sphere) collaboratively construct new realities (Naseem, 2015(Naseem, , 2020Arshad-Ayaz, 2020). The anonymity, instantaneous access, and interactive nature of virtual environments make them ideal sites for the propagation of hate speech.…”

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Perspectives of Muslim and Minority Canadian Youth on Hate Speech and Social Media

Arshad-Ayaz¹,

Naseem²,

Hizaoui³

2022

JCIE

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In this article, we highlight the perspectives of marginalized Canadian youth regarding hate speech on social media. Specifically, our research focus is on the complexity and intersectionality involved in cyber violence, especially in relation to marginalized identities. Twenty-five participants aged 18 to 25 studying at a central Canadian University (from an initial sample of 90 participants) who self-identified as victims of hate speech were invited to share their experiences and narrate their stories. Research results demonstrate that online hate speech is growing in Canada to an extent where it is has become normalized. This has serious implications for the well-being of Canadian youth - both perpetrators and victims of hate speech. The main targets of hate speech on social media in Canada are immigrants and minorities, particularly Muslims. Results show that online hate speech has significant consequences for the lives of Canadian youth. The repercussions for the victim's mental and physical well-being manifest in problems ranging from alienation, identity issues, deterioration of psychological and physical health to cyber and in-person bullying, and much more. The study concludes that while there are definite links between the rise of online hate speech, deterioration of mental and physical health, and increased attacks on immigrants and minorities, not much action has gone into policymaking and education to correct the situation.

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Covering Conflict: Between Universality and Cultural Specificity in News Discourse, Genre and Journalistic Style

Cited by 21 publications

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Online Hate Speech in the European Union

Online Hate Speech in the European Union

Threat and fear: Pragmatic purposes of emotionalisation in media discourse

Perspectives of Muslim and Minority Canadian Youth on Hate Speech and Social Media

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