The Attraction of Opposites: The Ideological Function of Conventional and Created Oppositions in the Construction of In-groups and Out-groups in News Texts

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The Attraction of Opposites: The Ideological Function of Conventional and Created Oppositions in the Construction of In-groups and Out-groups in News Texts

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Page Range:: 71–100

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789401200646_006

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This article seeks to investigate the relationship between binary opposites (such as ‘us/them’) and news values as instantiated in the British press. Opposites can range from the canonical (‘young/old’) to the unconventional (‘placard/banner’). Identification of these latter, textually specific oppositions requires the recognition of a variety of syntactic frameworks, identified by Jones (2002), which generate oppositions such as ‘X not Y’ and either X or Y’, where X and Y are each of a pair of oppositional words or phrases. I have utilised and added to these categories of frames to show how unusual oppositions - in a Sunday Mirror report of the February 2003 London demonstration against war in Iraq - combine rhetorically to construct groups of protestors as ‘acceptable’ and ‘unacceptable’ (e.g. ‘dad’ and ‘traitor’ respectively) in the value system of the writer and hence reinforce group stereotypes for the reader. Oppositions are simultaneously used to show the wide range of ‘ordinary’ protestors to give legitimacy to the demonstration. I conclude with an exploration of some of the wider ideological implications of artificially representing the world as if there were ‘no shades of grey’ and drawing on Chibnall (1977) and Fowler (1991) discuss some typical news values these oppositions exemplify.

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Stylistics and Social Cognition

丛编： PALA Papers, 卷： 4

ISBN:: 9789401200646

出版社:: Brill

印刷出版日期:: 01 Jan 2007

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- Languages and Linguistics
  - Pragmatics & Discourse Analysis
- Literature and Cultural Studies
  - Criticism & Theory

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