Oppositions and Ideology in News Discourse

AvMatt Davies

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Engelska, 2012

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Constructed opposition has proved as viable an area ofresearch as traditional antonymy, and a useful tool in looking at ideologicallyorientated texts. This book investigateshow binary oppositions are constructed discursively and the potentialideological repercussions of their usage in news reports in the British press.The focus is particularly on the positive presentation ofgroups 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 linguistic system andlanguage in context this is a key publication for those involved in discourseanalysis and stylistics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2012-11-22
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:256
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781441160447
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (Digital)
Serie:Advances in Stylistics

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Matt Davies is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Chester, UK.

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'Matt Davies' book is an excellent contribution towards research on the function and structure of constructed oppositions in ideological texts. Davies' framework adeptly shows how constructed opposites can be identified and classified, using case studies to demonstrate that oppositions are often used in complex and subtle ways that may not be detected by readers.' -- Dr Paul Baker, Lancaster University, UK

Innehållsförteckning

1. Introducing constructed opposites 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 ideologicalfunction of clustered oppositions in the representation of anti-war protestors\ 6. Case Study 2: A comparison of the role ofconstructed oppositions in two news reports of a Countryside Alliance protestmarch \ 7. Consistent oppositional themes in the protest march data \ 8. A new approach to studying binary oppositions in the construction of 'us' and 'them' in news texts \ Bibliography \ Index