28.2366, Books: Linguistic Viewpoint in Crime News Narratives: van Krieken

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Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 17:08:42
From: Martine Paulissen [gw.uilots.lot at uu.nl]
Subject: Linguistic Viewpoint in Crime News Narratives: van Krieken

 


Title: Linguistic Viewpoint in Crime News Narratives 
Subtitle: Form, Function and Impact 
Publication Year: 2016 
Publisher: Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT)
	   http://www.lotpublications.nl/
	

Book URL: http://www.lotpublications.nl/linguistic-viewpoint-in-crime-news-narratives 


Author: Kobie van Krieken

Paperback: ISBN:  9789460932144 Pages: 300 Price: Europe EURO 35.00


Abstract:

In the coverage of criminal events, newspapers often publish narratives which
combine characteristics of journalistic discourse with elements of literary
fiction. The function of these stories is not so much to inform readers about
what happened, but to create an immersive reading experience. How does the
language of crime news narratives contribute to this function? And what is the
impact of such stories on the audience? This dissertation adopts a
multi-method approach to answer these questions. 

Building on Mental Space Theory and Conceptual Blending Theory, this thesis
develops a cognitive linguistic model of narrative news discourse. The model
is used to analyze the linguistic manifestation of viewpoint in news
narratives in qualitative and quantitative ways.

Findings of the various studies show how news narratives make strategic use of
grammar, referential expressions, tense, and implicit viewpoints to describe
criminal events from the perceptual and psychological viewpoints of
eyewitnesses. Speech and thought reports are found to function either as a
means to dramatize the narratives or as a strategy to legitimize the narrative
reconstruction of reality. A diachronic corpus analysis reveals that the
dominant function of discourse reports has shifted over time from
dramatization to legitimization. Finally, an experimental study indicates that
crime news narratives enable readers to take the position of a mediated
witness and virtually experience the crime from up close.

This book is of interest to scholars in the fields of cognitive linguistics,
journalism studies, narratology, stylistics, and communication studies.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science
                     Discourse Analysis


Written In: English  (eng)

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