Controversy as News Discourse

• Main Author: Cramer, Peter A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Argumentation Library, 19
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Logic.; Applied linguistics.; Applied Linguistics.

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...

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.