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Publication details [#60337]

Harper, Craig A. and Todd E. Hogue. 2015. The Emotional Representation of Sexual Crime in the National British Press. Journal of Language and Social Psychology 34 (1) : 3–24.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

article | crime | emotion | psycholinguistics | sex

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

Evaluating linguistic content of articles from 8 of the most widely read British national newspapers reveals that sexual crime articles contained more vexed and emotionally negative tones than stories on violent and acquisitive crimes. Cognitive–experiential self-theory is one possible explanation frame.