Idolatry versus authenticity

A lexical and systemic-functional analysis of the coverage of the World Youth Day 2005 in the Flemish press

Bibliographic Data

ID12913353
AuthorsMartina Temmerman (0000-0002-1482-8488, Center for Applied Linguistics, corresponding author), Marit Trioen (Erasmus University College Brussels)
Year2009
Volume2
Issue3
Pages183-201
Publication date2009-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Arab & Muslim Media Research (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1751-9411 • E-ISSN: 1751-942X
PublisherIntellect (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1386/jammr.2.3.183_1
OpenAlexW2081313699
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited10

This article investigates the way (catholic) religion and youth are represented in different Flemish newspapers. The case of World Youth Day (WYD) 2005 offers a well-defined corpus, which is very suitable for an analysis of the discourse on religion, youth and media. Based on a linguistic analysis of the corpus, we have been able to describe the representation given to the WYD, of the presence of the pope and of the young participants. It turns out that, although the coverage is on the whole very precise, it shows remarkable patterns of inconsistency. On the one hand, most newspapers overemphasize the meaning of the presence of the pope at the WYD in relation to the overall meaning of the event. But this idolatry does not correspond with the view of the Flemish participants, who also get a lot of attention and who are represented in an authentic way. Furthermore, in a number of cases, the journalists revert to presuppositions and stereotypes in their representation of the event

Epistemology · Event (particle physics · Flemish · Linguistics · Meaning (existential · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Politics · Presupposition · Relation (database · Representation (politics · Sociology · Computer Science · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions

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