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Controversy as News Discourse
Peter A. Cramer
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Description for Controversy as News Discourse
Paperback. Drawing on data from the Reuters Corpus, this book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts. The book focuses on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers. Series: Argumentation Library. Num Pages: 212 pages, 12 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; HPL; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 11. Weight in Grams: 305.
This book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts, focusing on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers. Drawing data from the Reuters Corpus, the project identifies formulas that journalists use in reporting controversy and draws conclusions about how these serve professional and textual functions and how they shape public controversy as a natural, historical, and pragmatic event. While the traditions of dialectic and rhetoric have focused on the prescriptive aim of training participants to resolve controversies in philosophical dialogue or public debate settings, this orientation has tended ... Read more
This book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts, focusing on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers. Drawing data from the Reuters Corpus, the project identifies formulas that journalists use in reporting controversy and draws conclusions about how these serve professional and textual functions and how they shape public controversy as a natural, historical, and pragmatic event. While the traditions of dialectic and rhetoric have focused on the prescriptive aim of training participants to resolve controversies in philosophical dialogue or public debate settings, this orientation has tended ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Series
Argumentation Library
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789400736559
SKU
V9789400736559
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