Language as a tool of animal oppression : Exploring agency in the representation of farm animals
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Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14210%2F16%3A00090937" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14210/16:00090937 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="http://www.lingvistika.cz/ssol/2016" target="_blank" >http://www.lingvistika.cz/ssol/2016</a>
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Language as a tool of animal oppression : Exploring agency in the representation of farm animals
Original language description
The paper explores the representation of farm animals in the language of everyday news articles from an ecolinguistic standpoint. It tries to shed light on how animal identity is constructed in these texts, focusing on features connected to transitivity and agency attribution. Drawing on theories developed within critical language studies, the paper also incorporates insights from cognitive linguistics when interpreting textual features and their relation to how we perceive farm animals. It demonstrates that these animals are often inappropriately represented in Agent positions and made responsible for complications arising from human-initiated actions while human responsibility is being concealed or erased.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
O - Miscellaneous
CEP classification
AI - Linguistics
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů