Controversy as News Discourse

Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, Philosophy, Logic, Reference & Language, Language Arts, Linguistics
Cover of the book Controversy as News Discourse by Peter A. Cramer, Springer Netherlands
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Peter A. Cramer ISBN: 9789400712881
Publisher: Springer Netherlands Publication: June 17, 2011
Imprint: Springer Language: English
Author: Peter A. Cramer
ISBN: 9789400712881
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Publication: June 17, 2011
Imprint: Springer
Language: English

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.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

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.

More books from Springer Netherlands

Cover of the book Philosophy and Ideology by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book Action Theory by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book Aquatic Mites from Genes to Communities by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book The New Rhetoric and the Humanities by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book Proceedings of the Conference on Subretinal Space, Jerusalem, October 14–19, 1979 by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book Infrared spectra of mineral species by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book The Expression of the Psychosomatic Body from a Phenomenological Perspective by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book EPR of Free Radicals in Solids I by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book Perspectives on Practice and Meaning in Mathematics and Science Classrooms by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book Rodent Transplant Medicine by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book Cellular and Molecular Control of Neuronal Migration by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book Lead Pollution by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book Is Water H2O? by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book Sources and Detection of Dark Matter and Dark Energy in the Universe by Peter A. Cramer
Cover of the book The Problem of Embodiment by Peter A. Cramer
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy