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Record Nr.

UNINA9910812167403321

Autore

Davies Matt

Titolo

Oppositions and ideology in news discourse / / Matt Davies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013

ISBN

1-283-85355-8

1-4411-4633-4

1-4411-6044-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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