Representations of Ebola and Its Victims in Liberal American Newspapers

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F70883521%3A28150%2F15%3A43873649" target="_blank" >RIV/70883521:28150/15:43873649 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/topling.2015.16.issue-1/issue-files/topling.2015.16.issue-1.xml" target="_blank" >http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/topling.2015.16.issue-1/issue-files/topling.2015.16.issue-1.xml</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/topling-2015-0009" target="_blank" >10.2478/topling-2015-0009</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Representations of Ebola and Its Victims in Liberal American Newspapers

Original language description

Combining critical discourse analysis and the cognitive theory of metaphor, the study analyses hard news on Ebola from two American newspapers of a liberal political orientation, The New York Times and The New York Daily News, to investigate metaphoric representations of the disease and portrayals of its victims. It is revealed that both newspapers heavily rely on a single conceptual metaphor of EBOLA AS WAR, with only two alternative metaphors of EBOLA AS AN ANIMATE/HUMAN BEING and EBOLA AS A NATURAL CATASTROPHE employed. All three metaphoric themes assign the role of a culprit solely to the virus, which stands in contrast to non-metaphoric discursive allocations of blame for the situation in Africa, assigning responsibility mainly to man-made factors. African victims tend to be impersonalized and portrayed as voiceless and agentless, rarely occupying the role of a "fighter" in the military metaphoric representation of the disease, which runs counter to the findings of recent studies

Czech name

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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

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Continuities

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Publication year

2015

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Topics in Linguistics

ISSN

2199-6504

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

16

Issue of the periodical within the volume

1

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

13

Pages from-to

29-41

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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