scholarly journals Discourse media analysis of risk and responsibility for environmental pollution

2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (02) ◽  
pp. R02
Author(s):  
Jennifer Metcalfe
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Pollution ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Science Communication ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The Media ◽  
China And Japan ◽  
Media Discourses

This book examines the media discourses about environmental pollution in Australia, China and Japan. The book's authors focus on the actors involved in discussions of risk versus those involved in responsibility for environmental pollution. The authors use novel and traditional means of analysis that combine techniques from a variety of disciplines to examine case studies of media discourse. The book provides an interesting, if at times simplistic, overview of the pollution issues facing each country. The conclusions made from the media analysis are relevant to those researching and practicing science communication in the context of such important environmental issues.

scholarly journals Voices from the can: McLuhan, the digital absolute and the problem of regressive progress (towards a materialist epistemology of media discourse)

2005 ◽  
pp. 9-69
Author(s):  
Borislav Mikulic
Keyword(s):  
Communication Theory ◽  
Media Analysis ◽  
Integral Approach ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Narrative Strategies ◽  
Science And Literature ◽  
Marshall Mcluhan ◽  
The Media ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Media Form

On the basis of selected examples of average lay as well as professional and theoretical discourses on the media phenomenon and the very notion of media, the author seeks to identify moments conducive to constructing a model for media analysis of a social-theoretical bent, and both structural-semiotic and substantive-critical in character. The analysis refers to the media in both the strict (technological) and the expanded (semiological) meaning of the term - as technical devices and semiotic objects, such as discourses of ideology, science and literature. In the first section (I. 1-3), almost entirely devoted to Marshall McLuhan?s brief and legendary text ?The Medium Is the Message?, his basic thesis is put under a discursive-logical analysis of the text and reverted into the seemingly diametrically opposed form, ?The Message Is the Medium?, whose further interpretive possibilities are then explored. In the second section (II. 1-3) McLuhan?s ?integral? approach to media analysis, as a particular theory (communication theory), is examined by placing it in the discursive context along with the ?End of Ideology? thesis from the 1960s and instances of humanistic-scientific discourse on non-technological media forms (hermeneutic theories of perception, psychoanalysis of narrative strategies in fictional discourses). The aim of the discussion is to relocate the phenomenon of conceptual regression (whether substantive, cultural, or ideological) in discourses presupposing absolute innovativeness and progressiveness of their media form. The result of the inquiry shows that regressive ness lies in the ?progressive? media form itself, that is, in the very conceptions (theories, ideologies) of the form.

scholarly journals Semantic propositions of nominalisations as grammatical metaphor in English and Vietnamese media discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 112-116
Author(s):  
Le Thi Giao Chi Le
Keyword(s):  
Media Discourse ◽  
Semantic Representations ◽  
Functional Grammar ◽  
Systemic Functional Grammar ◽  
Grammatical Metaphor ◽  
The Media ◽  
Scientific Discourses ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
Form Of Expression

In the domain of Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG), the term ‘grammatical metaphor’ as coined by Michael Halliday (2004) refers to variation in the expression of meaning, which aims to transform the functions of grammatical elements that constitute meaning [1]. Grammatical metaphor (GM), also seen as an incongruent form of expression, has become a predominant feature of official or scientific discourses. However, these non-congruent metaphorical modes of expression or nominalisations have been increasingly used in other discourses, either in descriptive or media discourses. This article attempts to find out the semantic configurations of nominalisations as grammatical metaphor in English and Vietnamese media discourse. Based on the framework introduced by Halliday [1] and the categorisation of nominalized constructions suggested by Sušinskienė [2], it characterizes the semantic propositions of nominalisations as grammatical metaphor and compare the semantic representations of these constructions in the media discourse between English and Vietnamese.

scholarly journals The Rhetoric of Recessions: How British Newspapers Talk about the Poor When Unemployment Rises, 1896–2000

Sociology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 53 (6) ◽  
pp. 1005-1025 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel McArthur ◽  
Aaron Reeves
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
High Unemployment ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Media ◽  
Unique Dataset

Recessions appear to coincide with an increasingly stigmatising presentation of poverty in parts of the media. Previous research on the connection between high unemployment and media discourse has often relied on case studies of periods when stigmatising rhetoric about the poor was increasing. We build on earlier work on how economic context affects media representations of poverty by creating a unique dataset that measures how often stigmatising descriptions of the poor are used in five centrist and right-wing British newspapers between 1896 and 2000. Our results suggest stigmatising rhetoric about the poor increases when unemployment rises, except at the peak of very deep recessions (e.g. the 1930s and 1980s). This pattern is consistent with the idea that newspapers deploy deeply embedded Malthusian explanations for poverty when those ideas resonate with the economic context, and so this stigmatising rhetoric of recessions is likely to recur during future economic crises.

scholarly journals Emergent impoliteness and persuasive emotionality in Polish media discourses

2021 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 685-704
Author(s):  
Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk ◽  
Piotr Pęzik
Keyword(s):  
Negative Emotionality ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Research Outcomes ◽  
Discourse Strategies ◽  
The Media ◽  
Event Models ◽  
Media Texts ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
And Function ◽  
Role And Function

The focus of the paper is to identify and discuss cases of what we call emergent impoliteness and persuasive emotionality based on selected types of discourse strategies in Polish media which contribute to increasingly high negative emotionality in audiences and to the radicalization of language and attitudes when addressing political opponents. The role and function of emotional discourse are particularly foregrounded to identify its persuasive role in media discourses and beyond. Examples discussed are derived from current Polish media texts. The materials are collected from the large Polish monitor media corpus monco.frazeo.pl (Pęzik 2020). The analysis is conducted in terms of quantitative corpus tools (Pęzik 2012, 2014), concerning emotive and media discourse approaches (Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk and Wilson 2013, Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk 2015, 2017a, 2017b). The analysis includes a presentation of the ways mass media construe events (Langacker 1987/1991) in terms of their ideological framing, understood as particular imposed/constructed event models and structures (cf. Gans 1979). Special attention is paid to the negative axiological evaluation of people and events in terms of mostly implicitly persuasive and offensive discourse, including the role emotion clusters of harm, hurt and offence, anger and contempt play in the media persuasive tactics. The research outcomes provide a research basis and categorization of types of emergent impoliteness and persuasive emotionality, which involve implicit persuasion directed at negative emotionality raising with the media public, as identifiedin the analyzed media texts.

scholarly journals Media and the sacralization of history

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 113-129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof Wasilewski
Keyword(s):  
Media Discourse ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Printed Media ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses

This article presents an analysis of the process of sacralization of history in the media discourse. Certain events and figures from the past are incorporated into the sphere of sacrum which excludes any discussion and maintains the domination of one narration of history. The process of sacralization may take places directly or indirectly. The first relies on direct inclusion to the discourse of certain words, which are associated with religion. The indirect sacralization takes place when episodes from the past are changed into universal stories of fight between the good and the evil. The analysis is performed on printed media discourses concerning three events from Poland’s contemporary history: the 1920 Warsaw Battle of Warsaw, the 1944 Warsaw Uprising and the postwar armed underground.

scholarly journals Contemporary Political and Media Discourses on Immigrants

2021 ◽  
pp. 31-57
Author(s):  
Miguel Stuardo-Concha ◽  
Sandra Soler-Campo ◽  
Marina Riera-Retamero
Keyword(s):  
Political Discourse ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Rapid Review ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Academic Publications ◽  
The Media ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
And Migration ◽  
Media Discourses

In this research we review academic publications on media and political discourse about migration published in Spain between 2014 and 2019. The review has been carried out following the principles of the Rapid Review and Rapid Evidence Assessment of the Literature applied to discourse analytical research. The researchers have posed three main questions: a) Which representation of migrants and migration has been described in Spain during the last 5 years? b) Which particularities can be observed in the representation of migrant women? c) How are migrant children represented? Once the selection criteria have been applied, a final corpus of 18 recents publications has been selected. The researchers have found diverse and complex nuances in the discourse about immigration in Spain, both in the media and in political discourse. There are also relevant silences in the sphere of media discourse and little research addressing specifically the discourse on migrant women, children and the contemporary anti-migration discourse in the media and political sphere.

scholarly journals Constructing the Ideal Future in Foreign Military Media Discourses of The World War II Period

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
pp. 762-783
Author(s):  
Olga A. Solopova ◽  
Maria S. Saltykova
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Cognitive Linguistics ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
World War ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Ideal

The major objective of the paper is to establish functions of modeling the ideal future in the British, American and French military media discourses of World War II period. The authors argue that military media discourse is a hybrid type that combines the components of military, political, military-political, and media discourses whose concentration and interpenetration can vary greatly. The military media discourse is a mode of organizing knowledge, ideas, or experience of war that are rooted in the media and influenced by historical, geopolitical, social, and cultural context. The approach taken in this study is a mixed methodology of linguistic political prognostics that integrates fundamentals of philosophy, future studies, cognitive linguistics, and political linguistics. The samples from the digitized archives of the UK, the USA, and France (24 695 samples) are investigated through a number of methods: corpus, descriptive, cognitive and discourse analyses, cultural, metaphorical modeling, and comparative analyses. Being a basic value of military media discourse, the ideal future is determined by its nature: the idea of a better world inherent in human nature is intensified in transformative moments, war being one of them; representing the present, the media model both the past and the future. The ideal future integrates the key features of utopia and prognosis differing from them in certain specific characteristics. Its basic functions are prognostic, constructive, modeling, critical, provocative, and visualizing ones that complement one another in con-structing an ideal projection of the postwar world and the future of the USSR as a geopolitical ally of Great Britain, the USA, and France.

scholarly journals The Rhetoric of Recessions: How British Newspapers Talk about the Poor When Unemployment Rises, 1896–2000

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Reeves ◽  
Daniel McArthur
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Media Representations ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Economic Crises ◽  
High Unemployment ◽  
Economic Context ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Media ◽  
Unique Dataset

Recessions appear to coincide with an increasingly stigmatising presentation of poverty in parts of the media. Previous research on the connection between high unemployment and media discourse has often relied on case studies of periods when stigmatising rhetoric about the poor was increasing. We build on earlier work on how economic context affects media representations of poverty by creating a unique dataset that measures how often stigmatising descriptions of the poor are used in five centrist and right-wing British newspapers between 1896 and 2000. Our results suggest stigmatising rhetoric about the poor increases when unemployment rises, except at the peak of very deep recessions (e.g. the 1930s and 1980s). This pattern is consistent with the idea that newspapers deploy deeply embedded Malthusian explanations for poverty when those ideas resonate with the economic context, and so this stigmatising rhetoric of recessions is likely to recur during future economic crises.

scholarly journals CanEuroscepticism Contribute to a European Public Sphere? The Europeanization of Media Discourses about Euroscepticism across Six Countries

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anamaria Dutceac Segesten ◽  
Michael Bossetta
Keyword(s):  
Media Discourse ◽  
Mixed Methods Approach ◽  
European Context ◽  
European Public ◽  
Structural Variables ◽  
The Media ◽  
Logistic Regressions ◽  
British Case ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Eu

This study compares the media discourses about Euroscepticism in 2014 across six countries (United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Spain, Sweden, and Denmark). We assess the extent to which the mass media’s reporting of Euroscepticism indicates the Europeanization of public spheres. Using a mixed-methods approach combining LDA topic modeling and qualitative coding, we find that approximately 70 per cent of print articles mentioning ‘Euroscepticism’ or ‘Eurosceptic’ are framed in a non-domestic (i.e. European) context. In five of the six cases studied, articles exhibiting a European context are strikingly similar in content, with the British case as the exception. However, coverage of British Euroscepticism drives Europeanization in other Member States. Bivariate logistic regressions further reveal three macro-level structural variables that significantly correlate with a Europeanized media discourse: newspaper type (tabloid or broadsheet), presence of a strong Eurosceptic party, and relationship to the EU budget (net contributor or receiver of EU funds).

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