“Now there is a real effort to make sure people are adhering to orders they are supposed to be adhering to.”

Attitude construction through war journalism

Bibliographic Data

ID22342147
AuthorsStanca Măda (Transylvania University of Brașov), Răzvan Săftoiu (0000-0001-6851-7434)
Year2014
Volume4
Issue2
Pages194-212
Publication date2014-09-18
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueLanguage and Dialogue (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2210-4119 • E-ISSN: 2210-4127
PublisherJohn Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1075/ld.4.2.02mad
OpenAlexW2010671655
LanguageEN
References cited14

It is widely regarded that war journalism is centred on the dichotomy good/evil, with “good” being (almost always) on the author’s side, who promotes a type of discourse that readers should adhere to. In this paper, we put forward an examination of events in various conflict areas (Afghanistan, Iran, Syria, Senegal, and Dagestan) in order to identify and analyse linguistic strategies employed by journalists in order to construct attitudes. We refer to such strategies as: stance-taking patterns, source identification, use of military jargon, and inculcation of a politically-correct way of thinking. In order to carry out this analysis, we selected ten articles from representative American daily newspapers reporting on conflictive events. The data were gathered starting from the idea of simultaneity of opinions and of events. This feature allows our analysis to focus on recurrent patterns in the articles

Epistemology · Jargon · Journalism · Linguistics · Media studies · Newspaper · Political science · Public relations · Simultaneity · Sociology · Computer Science · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

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