Publications

Publication details [#14608]

Torck, Danièle. 2001. Voices of homeless people in street newspapers: a cross-cultural exploration. Discourse & Society 12 (3) : 371–392.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

frame | newspaper report

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

A discourse analysis of European and American street newspapers: objectives, topics, text genres, and self-representation of homeless people are discussed. It is shown that these newspapers do not always live up to their billing as being a platform for the homeless.