The Role of Nationality Contrasts in the Discursive Construction of an Ingroup Member: the Woodward Case in the Telegraph

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Role of Nationality Contrasts in the Discursive Construction of an Ingroup Member: the Woodward Case in the Telegraph

Original language description

Social categorisation, as a process in which individuals are assigned certain values and qualities, is a context-dependent activity in which discourse (as a means of purposeful and goal-oriented communication through language) draws on various referential and predicational strategies. This process often involves the discursive construction of two mutually opposed groups - the ingroup and the outgroup, which are subject to affective treatment: typically positive self-presentation and negative other-presentation. This article documents the gradual positive presentation of an ingroup member charged with a criminal act in a foreign country, as identified in continued reporting of the case in the Electronic Telegraph. From a potentially deviant individual,and thus a possible representative of an outgroup comprising negatively perceived 'criminals' (be they convicted or suspected), the English au-pair Louise Woodward was re-constructed into a non-deviant member of the ingroup and assigned p

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AI - Linguistics

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/GA405%2F07%2F0652" target="_blank" >GA405/07/0652: Integration in Languages - Languages in Integration</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2007

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Brno Studies in English

ISSN

0524-6881

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Volume of the periodical

33

Issue of the periodical within the volume

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Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

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