Publications

Publication details [#52558]

Denham, Bryan E. and Melissa Desormeaux. 2008. Headlining the head-butt: Zinedine Zidane/Marco Materazzi portrayals in prominent English, Irish and Scottish newspapers. Media, Culture & Society 30 (3) : 375–392.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

headline | language and culture | newspaper report | representational structure | sports language

Language as a subject

English, British | Irish | Scottish

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

This paper reviews the Zidane-Materazzi incident and constructs a conceptual framework, exploring the historical events and both political and cultural imperatives that may have affected prominent English, Irish and Scottish newspaper characterizations of the incident.