Language and Crime Constructing Offenders and Victims in Newspaper R
This book offers a systematic introduction to the linguistic analysis of newspaper reports on crime. The author demonstrates how the linguistic analysis of newspaper texts helps to gain insight into the construction of offenders and victims in those texts
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Ulrike Tabbert
Language and Crime
Ulrike Tabbert
Language and Crime Constructing offenders and victims in newspaper reports
Ulrike Tabbert Visiting Research Fellow University of Huddersfield, UK
ISBN 978-1-137-45350-1 ISBN 978-1-137-45351-8 DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-45351-8
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To my parents with deep gratitude
Foreword
People naturally want to feel secure from harm, or at least to know how much risk of harm they are exposed to. For most of us, fortunately, our knowledge of serious harm comes mainly from the media, including newspapers, rather than at first hand, so what is reported, and how it is presented, is very important. Or is it so fortunate? How accurate is the knowledge we think we are getting? Newspapers have more than one agenda: to inform the public, certainly, but also to attract readers. The London Times, for example, used to pride itself on being a newspaper of record and would devote space each day to reports of proceedings in parliament. What our elected representatives say is, we hope, important; but it was not considered interesting enough, and now it is included only when there is something out of the ordinary to report. So it is with crime. The commonest crimes receive little coverage, except when statistics are published showing a marked rise or fall in numbers, and the rare but serious ones are given prominence. Taking for example the most serious harm to which we are exposed, namely death: among the causes (apart from illnesses associated
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