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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151583703321

Autore

Tabbert Ulrike

Titolo

Language and Crime : Constructing Offenders and Victims in Newspaper Reports / / by Ulrike Tabbert

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137453518

1137453516

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 239 p. 11 illus., 7 illus. in color.)

Disciplina

306.44

Soggetti

Sociolinguistics

Criminology

Linguistics

Communication

Linguistics - Methodology

Media and Communication

Research Methods in Language and Linguistics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Crime news and what this book is about -- Chapter 2: Critical Stylistics -- Chapter 3: Naming and describing offenders and victims -- Chapter 4: Representing actions, events and states through the predicator -- Chapter 5: Equivalence, opposition, enumeration, prioritising and implied meaning -- Chapter 6: Hypothesising, negation and presenting others' speech -- Chapter 7: Deixis and metaphor -- Chapter 8: Analysing a newspaper report on crime by means of Critical Stylistics.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a systematic introduction to the linguistic analysis of newspaper reports on crime. The author demonstrates how the linguistic analysis of newspaper texts helps to gain insight into the construction of offenders and victims in those texts and links the findings to criminological frameworks. Tabbert employs Critical Stylistics to explore the description of participants, the presentation of speech as well as actions, states or events, and other linguistic devices



employed by journalists to present a particular image of an offender or a victim in the press. This book shows the fruitfulness of an interdisciplinary approach to reveal predominant discourse on crime in society and will be of great interest to researchers in linguistics, criminology and media studies.