Dehumanisation as a discursive strategy in the British popular press

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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Dehumanisation as a discursive strategy in the British popular press
Original language description
This article discusses the notion of discursive strategies in the media, describing their relationship to broad macro-strategies as goal-oriented plans of discourse participants on the one hand and the particular linguistic means used for their articulation on the other. Focusing on the referential/nomination strategeis and predicative strategies, it describes the use of labels and stereotypes which result in the dehumanisation of social actors. Using material from the media reporting of political events connected with the war in Iraq, it notes how descriptive labels and animal metaphors are used to construct an imaginary out-group which becomes subject to negative other-presentation. The ultimate purpose of such discursive strategies may consist in the implicit legitimation of certain political agendas.
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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
2008
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Book/collection name
Ends and Means in Language: Communication and Textual Strategies in Mass Media, Commercial and Academic Discourse (Tomášková Renata, Sirma Wilamová and Christopher Hopkinson, eds.)
ISBN
978-80-7368-592-8
Number of pages of the result
5
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Number of pages of the book
105
Publisher name
Ostravská univerzita
Place of publication
Ostrava
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