| CHOVANEC, Jan. Dehumanisation as a discursive strategy in the British popular press. In TOMÁŠKOVÁ, Renata, Sirma WILAMOVÁ and Christopher HOPKINSON. Ends and Means in Language: Communication and Textual Strategies in Mass Media, Commercial and Academic Discourse (Tomášková Renata, Sirma Wilamová and Christopher Hopkinson, eds.). 1st ed. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2008, p. 37-41. ISBN 978-80-7368-592-8. |
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@inbook{766393,
author = {Chovanec, Jan and Tomášková, Renata and Wilamová, Sirma and Hopkinson, Christopher},
address = {Ostrava},
booktitle = {Ends and Means in Language: Communication and Textual Strategies in Mass Media, Commercial and Academic Discourse (Tomášková Renata, Sirma Wilamová and Christopher Hopkinson, eds.)},
edition = {1.},
keywords = {discursive strategies; media discouse; British popular press; dehumanisation; social actors; negative other-presentation},
language = {eng},
location = {Ostrava},
isbn = {978-80-7368-592-8},
pages = {37-41},
publisher = {Ostravská univerzita},
title = {Dehumanisation as a discursive strategy in the British popular press},
year = {2008}
}
TY - CHAP
ID - 766393
AU - Chovanec, Jan - Tomášková, Renata - Wilamová, Sirma - Hopkinson, Christopher
PY - 2008
TI - Dehumanisation as a discursive strategy in the British popular press
VL - Neuveden.
PB - Ostravská univerzita
CY - Ostrava
SN - 9788073685928
KW - discursive strategies
KW - media discouse
KW - British popular press
KW - dehumanisation
KW - social actors
KW - negative other-presentation
N2 - 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.
ER -
CHOVANEC, Jan. Dehumanisation as a discursive strategy in the British popular press. In TOMÁŠKOVÁ, Renata, Sirma WILAMOVÁ and Christopher HOPKINSON. \textit{Ends and Means in Language: Communication and Textual Strategies in Mass Media, Commercial and Academic Discourse (Tomášková Renata, Sirma Wilamová and Christopher Hopkinson, eds.)}. 1st ed. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2008, p.~37-41. ISBN~978-80-7368-592-8.
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