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Oppositions and ideology in news discourse /

Constructed opposition has proved as viable an area of research as traditional antonymy, and a useful tool in looking at ideologically orientated texts. This book investigates how binary oppositions are constructed discursively and the potential ideological repercussions of their usage in news repor...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Davies, Matt
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2013.
Series:Advances in stylistics.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • FC; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Symbols and Typographical Conventions; List of Tables; List of Figures; 1 Introducing Constructed Oppositions in News Discourse; 2 Lexical Semantic Approaches to Opposition; 3 The Role of Syntactic Frames in Opposition Triggering; 4 The Role of Conceptual Relations in Opposition Triggering; 5 Case Study 1: The Ideological Function of Clustered Oppositions in the Representation of Anti-War Protestors.
  • 6 Case Study 2: A Comparison of the Role of Constructed Oppositions in Two News Reports of a Countryside Alliance Protest March7 Oppositions and Ideological Cohesion; 8 A New Approach to Studying the Construction of 'us' and 'them' in News Discourse; Notes; References; Index.