Description
| Product ID: | 9781137453501 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Language and Crime |
| Subtitle: | Constructing Offenders and Victims in Newspaper Reports |
| Authors: | Author: Ulrike Tabbert |
| Page Count: | 239 |
| Subjects: | Language: history and general works, Language: history & general works, Media studies, Crime and criminology, News media and journalism, Media studies, Crime & criminology, Press & journalism |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating Tabbert employs Critical Stylistics to explore the description of participants, the presentation of speech as well as actions, states or events, and other linguistic devices employed by journalists to present a particular image of an offender or a victim in the press. This book offers a systematic introduction to the linguistic analysis of newspaper reports on crime. The author demonstrates how the linguistic analysis of newspaper texts helps to gain insight into the construction of offenders and victims in those texts and links the findings to criminological frameworks. Tabbert employs Critical Stylistics to explore the description of participants, the presentation of speech as well as actions, states or events, and other linguistic devices employed by journalists to present a particular image of an offender or a victim in the press. This book shows the fruitfulness of an interdisciplinary approach to reveal predominant discourse on crime in society and will be of great interest to researchers in linguistics, criminology and media studies. |
| Imprint Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Publisher Name: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2016-11-28 |
