Symbolizing Place: Journalistic Narratives of the City

Peter Parisi; Brlavel Holcornb

doi:10.2747/0272-3638.15.4.376

Symbolizing Place

Journalistic Narratives of the City

Bibliographic Data

ID	7499863
Authors	Peter Parisi (corresponding author), Brlavel Holcornb
Year	1994
Volume	15
Issue	4
Pages	376-394
Publication date	1994-06-01
Peer Reviewed	Yes
Open Access	No
Type	ARTICLE
Venue	Urban Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiers	ISSN: 0272-3638 • E-ISSN: 1938-2847
Publisher	Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI	10.2747/0272-3638.15.4.376
OpenAlex	W2065878338
Language	EN
Citations received	26
References cited	44

As scholarship in a variety of disciplines acknowledges the power of symbolic systems to shape human conception, geographical research has increasingly scrutinized popular culture texts as repositories of spatial understanding. The newspaper particularly repays such study because it is tied functionally and symbolically to conceptions of place and describes characteristic inflections of the narrative of city life. Strategies in news narrative typically mediate between the newspaper's economic self-interest in regional development and the journalistic ideal of public service. A rhetorical analysis of stories announcing a redevelopment project demonstrates how conventions of journalistic representation can work subtly to present, yet subordinate, critical views of urban redevelopment

Art · Economy · Ideal (ethics · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · Newspaper · Political science · Power (physics · Redevelopment · Representation (politics · Rhetorical question · Scholarship · Service (business · Sociology · The Symbolic · Variety (cybernetics · Media Studies and Communication · Philippine History and Culture · Psychology · Rhetoric and Communication Studies · Law

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