Publications

Publication details [#51772]

Moore, Stephen H. 2008. Realising a discourse of the 'basket case' . Critical Discourse Studies 5 (2) : 181–199.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | developing nation | newspaper report | stereotype

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Annotation

Drawing on critical discourse analysis and systemic functional linguistic theory, this study argues that the reporting on Cambodia by The Economist magazine, a leading Western publication, effectively reinforces the distorted picture of Cambodia as a 'basket case'.