Crime news in British press: Expressing positive and negative status of core participants
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Year of publication | 2010 |
Type | Article in Periodical |
Magazine / Source | Discourse and Interaction |
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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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