Crime news in British press: Expressing positive and negative status of core participants

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Authors

JANČAŘÍKOVÁ Renata

Year of publication 2010
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Discourse and Interaction
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Education

Citation
Field Linguistics
Keywords crime news; victim vs. criminal dichotomy; naming strategies; newspaper discourse
Description The contribution presents a study of naming and referential strategies used to depict victims and criminals in crime news in British press (both broadsheets and tabloids). The focus is mainly on the means used to express a positive and negative status of core participants.
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