Mediating ideology in text and image : ten critical studies / edited by Inger Lassen, Jeanne Strunck, Torben Vestergaard.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lassen, Inger, 1951-

Strunck, Jeanne.

Vestergaard, Torben, 1943-

Series:

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture ; v. 18.

Discourse approaches to politics, society, and culture, 1569-9463 ; v. 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media.

Ideology.

Discourse analysis.

Semiotics.

Physical Description:

xii, 254 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia, PA : J. Benjamins, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

While ideology has been treated widely in CDA-literature, the role played by the interaction of text and image in multiplying meaning and furthering ideological stances has not so far received a lot of attention. Mediating Ideology in Text and Image offers a number of approaches to such analysis, offering students and academics valuable tools for identifying possible discrepancies between the world and the way it is represented through various mediational means. The authors' common aim is one of assisting the audience in reading between the lines, thus offering a variety of approaches that may contribute to a better understanding of how ideologies possibly work and how they may be denaturalised from text and image. The articles in part I look at rhetorical strategies used in meaning construction processes unfolding in various kinds of mass media. Part II focuses on the re-semiotization of meaning and looks at how analysing the combination of text and image may contribute to a better understanding of ideological processes brought about by multimodal resources. Foreword by Ruth Wodak.

Contents:

Mediating Ideology in Text and Image

Editorial page

Title page

LCC data

Table of contents

Preface

Why another volume on ideology?

References

Images in/and news in a globalised world

1. Images and icons

2. Analyzing (ideologies) critically?

2.1. Text and context

2.2. Is CDA critical? The concepts of ``critic/al'' and ``ideology''

3. Perspectives

Note

Media constructions of meaning

Semiosis, ideology and mediation

Two examples

Mediation and ideology

Critical Discourse Analysis

The Romanian cases

Notes

Evaluative semantics and ideological positioning in journalistic discourse

Introduction

Mechanisms of evaluative positioning

Journalistic commentary and inscribed attitude

`Hard news' and explicit attitudinal inscription

Attitudinal tokens 1: Evoking positive/negative assessments via `informational' content

Attitudinal tokens 2: Evaluative positioning via association and provocation

Attitudinal associations

Attribution and evaluative positioning

Authorial endorsement

Authorial distancing

Evidential standing

Concluding remarks

Identity and stance taking in news interviews

Categories and identities in talk-in-interaction

From `subjective' stance to `intersubjective' stance taking

Conversation Analysis and news interviews

Stance taking and the discourse-functional ``theory of stance''

Stance taking as intersubjective and sequential activity

Analysis

Introducing categories in news interview openings

Categorization as a resource for constructing an identity in a stance-taking sequence

Summary

Appendix - Transcription conventions

De-naturalizing ideology

The concept of presupposition.

Method, analysis and discussion of data

Specific definite reference

Restrictive relative clauses

Premodifying adjectives

The genitive

Intertextuality

Appraisal

Engagement

Conclusion

Understanding public discourse about violence and crime

1. Defining the problem

1.1. Background assumptions on critical literacy, domain-specificity and CDA

1.2. An overview of this paper

2. Crime news between self-defence, social criticism and entertainment

2.1. Crime news as narrative genre

2.2. Crime news and discourse on crime as modern gallows

2.3. Depiction of crime as social criticism

3. Different value systems and discourse on violent crime

3.1. Strict Father vs. Nurturant Parent morality (and other dichotomies)

3.2. Constructing the deviant as other

4. Evaluating contributions to debate

4.1. Monologism vs. dialogism

4.2. Dialogue and em involvement in discourse

4.3. Monological social criticism

4.4. Dialogical social criticism

5. Conclusions: Two directions for future work, plus a warning

Resemiotized meaning

From our plan to my promises

Part one: Theory

Politics

The political newspaper advertisement

Multimodal discourse analysis

Part two: Analysis

The presentation of the prime minister in the close-up photos

The verbal presentation of the overall policy

The co-articulation of verbal and visual elements

Icons as ideology

List of images

Getting attention in the media

Discourses, genres and layout - points of departure

Data

Five ways of getting attention

Facts check and questions column

The category of interview

Conclusions

The big picture

Materials

Theoretical orientation.

Analysis of the Greek image

The main headline: Immigrants ``slightly legal''

Analysis of Australian image

Image-verbiage relations

Media texts

News bulletin captions as ideological indices

1. Introduction

1.1. Statement of purpose

2. Setting the stage

2.1. Formal characteristics

3. Presentation and analysis of captions

3.1. Intertextuality

3.2. Metaphor

4. Conclusions

Index

Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612156106

9781282156104

1282156101

9789027293817

9027293813

OCLC:

237390400