Editorials and the Power of Media
Interweaving of socio-cultural identities
| University of Alberta
Editorials define at a given time how media construct their socio-cultural environment and where they position themselves in it. In this sense, they are snapshots of media socio-cultural identities whose study is crucial for the understanding of media actions and interactions on the political stage. This book contributes to the study of media roles in politics with a methodological “discursive communication identity framework” and its application to a corpus of editorials. This allows for the definition of editorials as a genre, and it reveals that, thanks to a very adroit interweaving of their socio-cultural identities, news media can play a much more active role on the political stage than studies on framing and agenda setting have hitherto shown. The place of media in political communication models might therefore need to be reviewed. This book is intended for all those interested in media and politics whatever their academic specializations.
[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 35] 2010. xiv, 239 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
Foreword
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xi–xiv
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Chapter 1. A framework for the study of media socio-cultural identities through their editorials
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1–20
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Chapter 2. Structures of Le Monde’s editorials
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21–48
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Chapter 3. French institutional issues and Le Monde
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49–90
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Chapter 4. The enlargement of the European Union and Le Monde
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91–132
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Chapter 5. The Second Chechen war and Le Monde
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133–164
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Chapter 6. Le Monde, editorials and politics
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165–188
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Appendix 1. Editorials
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189–194
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Appendix 2. Structure analysis
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195–200
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Appendix 3. Coherence model
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201–214
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Appendix 4. Style analysis
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215–222
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Appendix 5. Methodology tables
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223–224
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Appendix 6. French political landscape and institutions (1999–2001)*
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225–230
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Appendix 7. Le style du Monde (2002) – Excerpts
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231–234
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References
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235–238
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Index
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239–240
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“The book takes a useful and original angle to the linguistic study of the media, and, through its eclectic and interdisciplinary approach, makes a positive contribution to the development of a theoretical framework for the analysis of written discourse.”
Sky Marsen, Victoria University of Wellington, in Pragmatics and Society Vol. 2:1 (2011)
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Subjects
Communication Studies
Linguistics
BIC Subject: CFG – Semantics, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis
BISAC Subject: LAN009000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General