Aimed at students of applied linguistics, English language, media studies and journalism, this book explores how wealth inequality is represented in centre-right newspapers, with a particular focus on changes that parallel the growth in wealth inequality itself over the past forty-five years.
Aimed at students of applied linguistics, English language, media studies and journalism, this book explores how wealth inequality is represented in centre-right newspapers, with a particular focus on changes that parallel the growth in wealth inequality itself over the past forty-five years.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Michael Toolan is Professor of English Language at the University of Birmingham. He has been researching in literary linguistics and discourse analysis for many years, and has published extensively on Stylistics and Narrative. He is editor of the Journal of Literary Semantics, and is current Chair of the Poetics and Linguistics Association.
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Part I. Analysing the Evolving Press Discourse of Contemporary UK Inequality: 1. Increased wealth inequality in the UK 2. Why does increasing wealth inequality matter? 3. Facts, discourse, myths 4. 'Ethical' differentiation 5. Inequality as 'British' once more 6. Why The Times and the Daily Mail? 7. Spreading the word about the new inequality: the news media 8. Landmarks in the politics of language tradition 9. Language-oriented critical discourse analysis: a brief survey 10. Corpus linguistic methods for exploring the ideology in discourse 11. Theoretical and methodological assumptions of this study 12. Brief outline of the chapters 13. Political affiliations Part II. What's Fair and Unfair in The Times: 14. The language of fairness 15. Why concentrate on fair and unfair? 16. The 1971 and 2011 selections of fair and unfair stories 17. A national lottery 18. Industrial relations in 1971: strikes and unfair dismissal 19. Industrial relations in 2011: the burdens of employment law and 'abuse' of tribunals 20. Mr Marples's manifesto for the control of fair incomes 21. The squeezed middle and fair pay in 2011 22. Fair rents, fair housing 23. Pensions 'reform' 24. Fair and unfair in other contexts 25. Conclusions Part III. Budgets and Burdens, from Barber to Osborne: 26. Introduction 27. Style and genre differences between Barber 1971 and Osborne 2011 28. Lexical contrasts 29. We in Osborne 30. Fair and help in Osborne 31. Taxation 32. The disappearing burden of taxation 33. Chancellors' metaphors and the stories they tell: ruts and dust versus the march of the makers 34. The editorial reception of the Barber and Osborne budgets in The Times and the Daily Mail Part IV. Peter Black, Christopher Stevens, Class and Britain: 35. The TV reviewer as spokesperson of everyday ideology: Peter Black and Christopher Stevens 36. General topics in Black and Stevens Compared 37. Methodology 38. Peter Black on class 39. Class and other values in Christopher Stevens, 2013 40. Equal and fair in CS and PB 41. Coronation Street, sex and race, then and now 42. Key semantic domains in Black's and Stevens's journalism: a comparative analysis 43. The meanings of Britain and the British then (in PB) and now (in CS) 44. Conclusion Part V. Forty-Five Years of Luddite Behaviour: 45. Ned Ludd and Robin Hood 46. The Luddites 47. Luddite and Luddites: grammar, meaning, and frequency 48. Luddite in the early 1970s in The Times: a preliminary survey 49. Luddite/Luddites used politically in The Times and the Mail during the first Thatcher term 50. Luddite/s after June 1983 51. The Miners' Strike of 1984-5 52. Concluding remarks: the Luddite narrative Part VI. Forty-Five Years of Robin Hood: 53. Powerful names 54. Robin Hood in The Times: preliminary profile 55. Robin Hood in the Daily Mail: preliminary profile 56. Robin Hood in the 1970s 57. Grunwick 58. Robin Hood in Mrs Thatcher's 1980s and John Major's 1990s 59. Keynes, not Robin Hood 60. Bishops more progressive than Labour 61. Gordon Brown as (nearly) Robin Hood: the New Labour years (1997 to 2010) 62. Robin Hood since 2010 63. Conclusion Part VII. Conclusion.
Part I. Analysing the Evolving Press Discourse of Contemporary UK Inequality: 1. Increased wealth inequality in the UK 2. Why does increasing wealth inequality matter? 3. Facts, discourse, myths 4. 'Ethical' differentiation 5. Inequality as 'British' once more 6. Why The Times and the Daily Mail? 7. Spreading the word about the new inequality: the news media 8. Landmarks in the politics of language tradition 9. Language-oriented critical discourse analysis: a brief survey 10. Corpus linguistic methods for exploring the ideology in discourse 11. Theoretical and methodological assumptions of this study 12. Brief outline of the chapters 13. Political affiliations Part II. What's Fair and Unfair in The Times: 14. The language of fairness 15. Why concentrate on fair and unfair? 16. The 1971 and 2011 selections of fair and unfair stories 17. A national lottery 18. Industrial relations in 1971: strikes and unfair dismissal 19. Industrial relations in 2011: the burdens of employment law and 'abuse' of tribunals 20. Mr Marples's manifesto for the control of fair incomes 21. The squeezed middle and fair pay in 2011 22. Fair rents, fair housing 23. Pensions 'reform' 24. Fair and unfair in other contexts 25. Conclusions Part III. Budgets and Burdens, from Barber to Osborne: 26. Introduction 27. Style and genre differences between Barber 1971 and Osborne 2011 28. Lexical contrasts 29. We in Osborne 30. Fair and help in Osborne 31. Taxation 32. The disappearing burden of taxation 33. Chancellors' metaphors and the stories they tell: ruts and dust versus the march of the makers 34. The editorial reception of the Barber and Osborne budgets in The Times and the Daily Mail Part IV. Peter Black, Christopher Stevens, Class and Britain: 35. The TV reviewer as spokesperson of everyday ideology: Peter Black and Christopher Stevens 36. General topics in Black and Stevens Compared 37. Methodology 38. Peter Black on class 39. Class and other values in Christopher Stevens, 2013 40. Equal and fair in CS and PB 41. Coronation Street, sex and race, then and now 42. Key semantic domains in Black's and Stevens's journalism: a comparative analysis 43. The meanings of Britain and the British then (in PB) and now (in CS) 44. Conclusion Part V. Forty-Five Years of Luddite Behaviour: 45. Ned Ludd and Robin Hood 46. The Luddites 47. Luddite and Luddites: grammar, meaning, and frequency 48. Luddite in the early 1970s in The Times: a preliminary survey 49. Luddite/Luddites used politically in The Times and the Mail during the first Thatcher term 50. Luddite/s after June 1983 51. The Miners' Strike of 1984-5 52. Concluding remarks: the Luddite narrative Part VI. Forty-Five Years of Robin Hood: 53. Powerful names 54. Robin Hood in The Times: preliminary profile 55. Robin Hood in the Daily Mail: preliminary profile 56. Robin Hood in the 1970s 57. Grunwick 58. Robin Hood in Mrs Thatcher's 1980s and John Major's 1990s 59. Keynes, not Robin Hood 60. Bishops more progressive than Labour 61. Gordon Brown as (nearly) Robin Hood: the New Labour years (1997 to 2010) 62. Robin Hood since 2010 63. Conclusion Part VII. Conclusion.
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