Representations of Ebola and Its Victims in Liberal American Newspapers

Kód výsledku v 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>

Výsledek na webu

<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>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Representations of Ebola and Its Victims in Liberal American Newspapers

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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

Název v anglickém jazyce

Representations of Ebola and Its Victims in Liberal American Newspapers

Popis výsledku anglicky

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

Druh

J_x - Nezařazeno - Článek v odborném periodiku (Jimp, Jsc a Jost)

CEP obor

AI - Jazykověda

OECD FORD obor

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Projekt

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Návaznosti

V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju

Rok uplatnění

2015

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Topics in Linguistics

ISSN

2199-6504

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

16

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

1

Stát vydavatele periodika

SK - Slovenská republika

Počet stran výsledku

13

Strana od-do

29-41

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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