Western Enlightenment Ideology in Newspaper Discourse on Natural Catastrophes

TRČKOVÁ, Dita. Western Enlightenment Ideology in Newspaper Discourse on Natural Catastrophes. In 3rd International Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD), Lodz, Poland. 2010.

Basic information

Original name

Western Enlightenment Ideology in Newspaper Discourse on Natural Catastrophes

Authors

TRČKOVÁ, Dita (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

3rd International Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD), Lodz, Poland, 2010

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Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Prezentace na konferencích

Field of Study

60200 6.2 Languages and Literature

Country of publisher

Czech Republic

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14210/10:00056462

Organization unit

Faculty of Arts

Keywords in English

newspaper discourse; ideology; CDA; nature-culture dualism

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Abstract

V originále

The paper analyzes newspaper articles on natural catastrophes published in Western English-speaking countries. It reveals that the newspaper discourse reproduces nature-culture dualism by portraying nature as people's enemy. Newspaper articles subvert the domination of man over nature encoded in Western enlightenment ideology by depicting the natural phenomenon as an uncontrollable monster.