| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 212 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Part I Language -- 1 Representations of the Baltimore Riots of July 1812: Political Spin in the Early American Republic -- 2 Moral Storytelling during the 2011 England Riots: Mythology, Metaphor and Ideology -- 3 Why Do They Protest?: The Discursive Construction of 'Motive' in Relation to the Chilean Student Movement in the National Alternative Press (2011-13) -- 4 Crying Children and Bleeding Pensioners against Rambo's Troop: Perspectivisation in German Newspaper Reports on Stuttgart 21 Protests -- 5 Taking a Stance through the Voice of 'Others': Attribution in News Coverage of a Public Sector Workers' Strike in Two Botswana Newspapers -- 6 Media 'Militant' Tendencies: How Strike Action in the News Press Is Discursively Constructed as Inherently Violent -- Part II Multimodality -- 7 Metaphor and the (1984-5) Miners' Strike: A Multimodal Analysis -- 8 Strategic Manoeuvring in Arab Spring Political Cartoons -- 9 Social Media Activism by Favela Youth in Rio de Janeiro -- 10 Rioting and Disorderly Behaviour as Political Media Practice: Body Postures on the Streets of L.A. during the Riots of 1992 -- Index |
| Summary |
Drawing on insights from linguistics, multimodality and media studies, this book explores the ideological dimensions of media representation and its function in discursively constructing public understandings of, and attitudes toward, civil disorder |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 19, 2018) |
| Subject |
Riots -- Press coverage
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Demonstrations -- Press coverage
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Strikes and lockouts -- Press coverage
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English language -- Discourse analysis.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Linguistics -- General.
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English language -- Discourse analysis
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kelsey, Darren, 1983- editor.
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Hart, Christopher (Linguist), editor.
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| ISBN |
9781474435420 |
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1474435424 |
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1474435416 |
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9781474435413 |
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