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Publication details [#53810]

Bednarek, Monika A. and Helen Caple. 2010. Playing with environmental stories in the news — good or bad practice? Discourse & Communication 4 (1) : 5–31.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | ecolinguistics | environment2 | humor | newspaper report

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Annotation

This paper explores whether the clash between the humorousness of the word-image play use and the seriousness of the reported environmental event, makes up a good or a bad practice within environmental stories in the Australian broadsheet newspaper 'The Sydney Morning Herald'.