Oppositions and ideology in news discourse [[electronic resource] /] / Matt Davies

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910786584603321
• Autore: Davies Matt
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
• ISBN: 1-283-85355-8; 1-4411-4633-4; 1-4411-6044-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (241 p.)
• Collana: Advances in Stylistics; Advances in stylistics
• Disciplina: 302.2
• Soggetti: Debates and debating in mass media; Discourse analysis - Political aspects - Great Britain; Ideology - Political aspects - Great Britain; Journalism - Objectivity - Great Britain; Journalism - Political aspects - Great Britain; Journalism - Great Britain - Language; Mass media - Political aspects - Great Britain
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: FC; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Symbols and Typographical Conventions; List of Tables; List of Figures; 1 Introducing Constructed Oppositions in News Discourse; 2 Lexical Semantic Approaches to Opposition; 3 The Role of Syntactic Frames in Opposition Triggering; 4 The Role of Conceptual Relations in Opposition Triggering; 5 Case Study 1: The Ideological Function of Clustered Oppositions in the Representation of Anti-War Protestors; 6 Case Study 2: A Comparison of the Role of Constructed Oppositions in Two News Reports of a Countryside Alliance Protest March7 Oppositions and Ideological Cohesion; 8 A New Approach to Studying the Construction of 'us' and 'them' in News Discourse; Notes; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Constructed opposition has proved as viable an area of research as ; traditional antonymy, and a useful tool in looking at ideologically orientated texts. This book investigates how binary oppositions are constructed discursively and the potential ideological repercussions of their usage in news reports in the British press. The focus is particularly on the positive presentation of groups and individuals subsumed under the first person plural pronouns 'us' and 'we', and the simultaneous marginalization of groups designated as 'they' or 'them'. Exploring the dynamic relations between the linguist