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Showing 1 to 11 of 11 for “"news discourse"”.
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Constructing Meaning: A Critical Linguistic Perspective on News Discourse
This study has implications for teaching critical language awareness to adults as well as students in and out of a school setting, and opens new grounds for research that would help devise strategies and methods of achieving this educational goal.
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An examination of Van Dijk's analysis of prejudice in news discourse
LD2668 .R4 SPCH 1989 W66
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Organizational and textual structuring of radio news discourse in English and Arabic.
… work studies the overall structuring of radio news discourse via investigating three metatextual/interactive functions: (1) Discourse Organizing Elements (DOEs), (2) Attribution and (3) Sentential and Nominal Background Information (SBI & NBI). An extended corpus of about 73,000 words from BBC …
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"Other" news : enemy image construction and otherization of Al Jazeera in American television news
… thesis explores the construction of the Arabic news network Al Jazeera on mainstream American television news. A textual analysis of transcripts from American television news programs on ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and Fox News was conducted using a model of enemy image construction and Otherization in …
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Under Western eyes : the BBC and the Iranian revolution 1978-1979 : a discursive analysis
… was constructed by the BBC (Persian Service) as news story, and how this constructed story as a text provided the Iranian audiences, who participated in the revolution, with a' preferred reading' of the events. The study gives a media narrative of the revolution as a historical "context", and …
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Playing "Carrot and Stick" : Canadian press coverage of Nigeria on the hanging of nine Ogoni rights activists, November-December 1995
… and Le Devoir. Employing cultural-critical discourse analysis, the research found that (i) the Canadian news dislocated the Nigerian story from its native moorings and employed Western/Canadian fiction about Africa and the developing world in framing the news narrative; (ii) the Canadian …
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The return of the Serbian other: Interpretative repertoires of nationalism and identity politics in online news discourses on Serbia's integration in the European union
… process, Serbs have faced fractured national discourses that are inscribed with new forms of liminality encapsulated in an externally ascribed position of "flawed Europeans." This dissertation explores the co-construction of national identities in the context of public debate about the …
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Metaphorical Depictions of the American and Chinese Economies during the 2010 Financial Crisis
… the critical analysis of metaphors in economic news discourse during financial crisis, aiming to explore metaphorical images of the American and Chinese economies in economic news articles as representatives of distinct cultural and ideological backgrounds. It also examines whether these …
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U.S. Press Representation of the Southern Sudanese Civil War, 1983-2005
The study examines how the U.S. print news media discursively represented the civil war that raged from 1983-2005 between southern Sudan and the central government in the north over the tenures of three successive war-time Sudanese administrations. The study was situated within the broader …
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In ruimtes vasgekeer: 'n Kognitiewe benadering tot metafore in dekoloniale diskoers
Afrikaans: Die kognitiewe linguistiek voer aan dat meeste abstrakte konsepte slegs in terme van metafore bedink en verstaan kan word. Dekolonialiteit as abstrakte konsep is steeds ’n vurige besprekingspunt in die konteks van hoër onderwys in Suid-Afrika. Hierdie verhandeling beoog om die verband …