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Discursive Constructions around Terrorism in the "People’s Daily" (China) and "The Sun" (UK) before and after 9.11

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Discursive Constructions around Terrorism in the "People’s Daily" (China) and "The Sun" (UK) before and after 9.11 Synopsis

How have media constructions around terrorism changed since 9.11? This book analyses the ways that language is employed in the media to reference discourses around terrorism in different social systems and doctrines, and illustrates the ways in which news reporting around terrorism is filtered according to a wide range of phenomena including national interests, the goals of those who run the press, international relations, methods of news production, audience targeting and other historical, political and social factors. This book collects and analyses corpora from news articles in the two most widely read newspapers in China and the UK. Corpus techniques including frequency and keyness are merged with methods associated with critical discourse analysis particularly investigation of social context. This book shows that there is a wide range of possible discursive constructions of terrorism in the media. Such different perspectives are likely to shape national or even global opinion on how to tackle terrorism.

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ISBN: 9783034301862
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Author: Yufang Qian
Publisher: Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 272 pages
Series: Contemporary Studies in Descriptive Linguistics
Genres: Linguistics
Communication studies
Sociology and anthropology