Russia as the other
Corpus investigation of Olympic host construction inThe New York Times
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6084728 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anastasia Bolshakova |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 446-467 |
| Publication date | 2016-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Language and Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1569-2159 • E-ISSN: 1569-9862 |
| Publisher | John Benjamins Publishing Company (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1075/jlp.15.4.04bol |
| OpenAlex | W2529070182 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 18 |
This paper explores the construction of Russia as the Other in a major Western media source. For its theoretical framework, it draws on Stuart Hall’s conception of the representation of the Other through splitting. The study is based on the comparative analysis of the portrayal of Russia and the UK as host nations for two different Olympic Games inThe New York Times. In order to reduce researcher bias, the analysis is conducted using methods of corpus linguistics. Two specialized corpora were compiled: one on the run-up to the 2014 Sochi Olympics and the other to the 2012 London Olympics. Three topics of the typical pre-Olympic discourse are compared: security, construction, and protests. It is observed that these aspects are constructed in binary opposition in the coverage of the two Games, presenting Russia as the West’s constituting Other. The issue of the negative implications of such discourse is raised
Binary opposition · Corpus linguistics · Discourse analysis · Linguistics · Media studies · Opposition (politics · Order (exchange · Political science · Politics · Representation (politics · Sociology · Media Studies and Communication · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society · Law · Philosophy
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Using Corpora in Discourse Analysis
Corpus Linguistics
Corpora in Applied Linguistics
Acceptable bias? Using corpus linguistics methods with critical discourse analysis
Corpus Linguistics and Critical Discourse Analysis
Olympics 2012 security
The discourse of Olympic security
Russia as Central Europe's Constituting Other
Europe's eastern expansion and the reinscription of otherness in East-Central Europe
The Region-Building Approach Revisited
Imagined communities
The security issue at the 2004 Olympics
Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Spectacular Security
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0.75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2024 (3) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |