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Agency in the British Press : a corpus-based discourse analysis of the 2011 Uk Riots / by Maria Cristina Nisco.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nisco, Maria Cristina, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociolinguistics.
- Discourse analysis.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (171 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
- Summary:
- This book examines the ways in which the 2011 UK riots were reported by the British press, by analysing the linguistic construal of the main participants involved in the protests and their agency. Starting from the assumption that newspapers do not just mirror reality, but rather construct it in discourse through a series of linguistic, stylistic and editorial choices, great attention is paid to how the events were portrayed according to different political, social and cultural stances. Since the linguistic labels employed by the newspapers to identify (and connote) the protagonists of the rio
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 20, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 1-4438-8752-8
- OCLC:
- 1162282280
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