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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Controversy as News Discourse
  name:
    name part: Cramer, Peter A.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2011
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: VIII, 204 p. online resource.
  abstract: This book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts, focusing on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers. Drawing data from the Reuters Corpus, the project identifies formulas that journalists use in reporting controversy and draws conclusions about how these serve professional and textual functions and how they shape public controversy as a natural, historical, and pragmatic event. While the traditions of dialectic and rhetoric have focused on the prescriptive aim of training participants to resolve controversies in philosophical dialogue or public debate settings, this orientation has tended to preempt questions about where controversy is located and how it is shaped. This project contributes to descriptive, ethnographic research about controversy, using discourse analysis to address a problem in argumentation.
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: Where is Controversy? -- 2. Controversies and Texts -- 3. Genres of Controversy: The Philosophical Dialogue and the News Article -- 4. Controversy as an Event Category -- 5. Reporting Controversy in Constructed Dialogue -- 6. Locations of Controversy -- Bibliography -- Index.
  note: by Peter A. Cramer.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Applied linguistics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Applied Linguistics
  classification: BC1-199
  classification: 160
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Argumentation Library, 19
  identifier: 9789400712881
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1288-1
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    record creation date: 110616
    record change date: 20151120185158.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-1288-1