This book presents the results of an interdisciplinary study on the press coverage of ethnic affairs. Besides providing the reader with a thorough content analysis of the material, the book introduces a detailed discourse analytical approach to the study of the ways in which ethnic minorities are portrayed in the press. This approach focuses on overall news report schemata, local meanings, and the style and rhetoric of news reports.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
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Höhe: 216 mm
Breite: 138 mm
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978-0-415-04733-3 (9780415047333)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Part 1 The study of racism and the Press: ethnic events; a multidisciplinary approach; a critical, anti-racist approach; research framework; materials and research procedures; racism and the mass media - earlier work; to be or not to be a racist. Part 2 Theoretical framework: racism; reproduction; social cognition; structures and strategies of news; public reproduction; elite racism; the discourse analytic approach; Part 3 Headlines: structures and functions of headlines; headlines in the British Press. Part 4 Subjects and topics: the relevance of topical analysis; subjects in the British Press; topics in the British Press; subjects and topics in the Dutch Press; further comparisons and overall conclusions.
