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1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) : illustrations, charts |
| Contents |
Chapter 1. The Context and the Debated Value of Data. The Loss of Black Lives at the Hands of U.S. Police, and the Media Attention -- Hard-to-obtain Controversial Data and the Role of the Media. (The Counted-a Cross-Media Project for Data Gathering ; Media Transformative Storytelling) -- Governmental vs News Media Sources -- The Myth of Real-Time Data via Digital Media, and Cognitive Heuristics -- Controversy and Unearned Certitudes -- Reactions and Counter Reactions against the Background of the U.S Gun Culture. (Fatal Shootings of U.S. Police in Dallas, and Ongoing Mass Shootings ; The BLM Movement and the 'Ferguson Effect' -- The Removal of Confederate Icons as an Ongoing Media-Enhanced Confrontation) -- #blacklivesmatter.com- A Political Platform -- The Focus of this Study -- Chapter 2. Integrated Methodologies. CDA-From Social Philosophy down to Morphemes, Dynamically -- Relevance and CDA- Qualitative or Quantitative Analyses? -- The Pictorial Turn and Multimodal Critical Discourse Analysis. (From Monomodality to the Pictorial Turn ; Framing MCDA-Visual-Verbal Deixis) -- Multimodal Narratives- Mapping Personal Stories -- The Iconic Turn of Language -- Chapter 3. Trayvon Martin's Death and the Birth of #blacklivesmatter. The Shooting of Trayvon Martin- From Local News to National Limelight -- Aims and Focus -- People, Objects and Phrases in the Mediatic Zimmerman's Trial -- The Castle Doctrine, Gun Culture and Florida's 776.013 Statute. (Murdered by Legislation?) -- Methods- the Appraisal Framework. (Affect and Provoked Judgment ; Corpus) -- The AF Framing of the Data -- Results and Discussion -- The Evolving Context of the Situation -- The Black Lives Matter Movement and Obama's Attention -- Iconic Language- Some Remarks -- |
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Chapter 4. Michael Brown, The Media-Fuelled Riots, the Teachable Moment. Background and Focus -- The Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies- Divergence and Miscommunication -- Black Parents' Words of Warning -- The Circle of Black Mothers and Fathers -- Contested Vision. (Meta-news: Facebook vs Twitter) -- The Issue of Journalistic Attribution. (Corpus ; The Data and Some Comments) -- The Teachable Moment- the Transformative Response -- Discussion and Remarks -- Chapter 5. Mass Shooting, Attempted Reconciliation and the Ever Divisive Confederate Legacy. The 2015 Emanuel Church Massacre- Background and Focus -- Adaptive Methodology- the Discourse Historical Approach. (Fluid Narratives, Phrases and Lexicogrammar ; Corpus) -- The Data from the Charleston Gazette -- The Data from Time Magazine -- Perspectivation -- President Obama on the Charleston Shooting- Justice and Amazing Grace -- President Obama's Legacy -- Ongoing Troubles, Troublesome Phrases- The Confederate Legacy in Trump's Era -- Possible Considerations -- Chapter 6. Platforms for Change- The Power of Media Enhanced Words -- Synergies and Trends in the Philanthropic Media- the MIF -- The Counted- Journalism That Matters. (Synesthetic Synergies in Digital Communication ; The Counted Platform- Its Layers) -- More Platforms. (Photography Is Not a Crime ; Question Bridge- Black Males) -- A Focus on the Power of Words. (A Tentative, Non-Determining Insight- the Notion of Nommo -- The African-American Love for Language) -- The Language of Protest, the Coding of Language -- Coded Language- Localised Lexico-Grammar -- What Is in a Phrase? -- Some Possible Considerations -- Final considerations and the agenda of positive discourse analysis |
| Summary |
This volume focuses on the ongoing protest in the US against racial discrimination and racial profiling, which often result in the loss of black lives at the hands of police agents, a phenomenon that has recently attracted unprecedented media attention. The topics dealt with here, such as the relevance of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement, are currently included in a variety of education curricula in the US, and, in like manner, this book can be used in first and second level degrees in linguistic and cultural studies, communication, media studies and political sciences. It contains well-developed methodological sections (with tables, figures, graphs and notes), where the tenets of critical discourse analysis are concisely illustrated from its Foucauldian roots up to the more recent developments of multimodal critical discourse analysis and positive discourse analysis, as well as the contribution of the Sidney School with their emphasis on mapping culture through narrative genres and the wealth of resources for discourse analysis provided by the appraisal framework |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-254) |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 24, 2020) |
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Black lives matter movement -- United States
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Mass media and race relations -- United States
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African Americans -- Social conditions -- 21st century
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Race relations in mass media.
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Mass media and language -- United States
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Critical discourse analysis.
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Cultural studies.
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Memorials, monuments.
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Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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African Americans -- Social conditions
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Black lives matter movement
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Critical discourse analysis
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Mass media and language
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Mass media and race relations
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Race relations in mass media
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781527521469 |
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152752146X |
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