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Author Davies, Matt.

Title Oppositions and ideology in news discourse / Matt Davies.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 222 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Advances in stylistics
Advances in stylistics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
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Subject Debates and debating in mass media.
Debates and debating in mass media.
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
Discourse analysis -- Political aspects.
Great Britain.
Discourse analysis.
Mass media -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
Mass media -- Political aspects.
Journalism -- Objectivity -- Great Britain.
Journalism -- Objectivity.
Journalism -- Great Britain -- Language.
Journalism.
Journalism -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
Journalism -- Political aspects.
Ideology -- Political aspects -- Great Britain.
Ideology -- Political aspects.
Ideology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Davies, Matt. Oppositions and ideology in news discourse. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013 9781441180605 (DLC) 2012035232 (OCoLC)809456909
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