Manipulative discursive constructions in British and Ukrainian reporting of the MH17 downing

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25739638.2020.1863643?scroll=top&needAccess=true" target="_blank" >https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25739638.2020.1863643?scroll=top&needAccess=true</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/25739638.2020.1863643" target="_blank" >10.1080/25739638.2020.1863643</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Manipulative discursive constructions in British and Ukrainian reporting of the MH17 downing

Original language description

This article deals with manipulative discursive strategies used by the British BBC and Ukrainian TSN news broadcasters on their websites while reporting the incident of the MH17 downing over Ukraine on 17 July 2014. It was assumed that discursive manipulation would be different for the two countries, with the British maintaining a seemingly neutral position in reporting the tragic event, and the Ukrainians–more personally affected and therefore more biased–appearing more manipulative. The analysis methods applied included discursive, linguostylistic, and narratological approaches, as well as multimodal metaphor and metonymy, corpus, and CDA perspectives. The focus is on the social actors and the language of headlines, photo cuts related to them, and narratives. The BBC and TSN foreground some social agents involved in the MH17 tragedy and foreshadow others. The discursive strategies applied in the headlines reflect the ideological messages of the two countries and the broadcasters’ policies, as they focus on local representation, evinced by the vocabulary used and social actors mentioned, visual metaphors and metonymies at play. To create an intrigue matrix necessary for a successful narrative, the BBC offered stories in which the voices of victims are heard, while the TSN almost exclusively focused on official opinions.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60201 - General language studies

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2020

Confidentiality

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

Name of the periodical

Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe

ISSN

2573-9638

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

28

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2-3

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

225-247

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85097617588