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TY - JOUR
T1 - Event-construal in press reports of violence in political protests
T2 - a cognitive linguistic approach to CDA
AU - Hart, Christopher
N1 - Journal of Language and Politics 12:3 (2013), 400-423. doi 10.1075/jlp.12.3.05har issn 1569–2159 / e-issn 1569–9862 © John Benjamins Publishing Company. The publisher should be contacted for permission to re-use or reprint the material in any form.
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - In this paper I extend the scope of the Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by incorporating Langacker's model of Cognitive Grammar in a critical analysis of press reports of violence in two political protests. In doing so, I address issues recently raised against CDA concerning cognitive equivalence. The paper presents an analysis of the alternative conceptualisations of violence invoked in online reports from The Telegraph vs. The Guardian of two recent political protests. Systematic differences in construal are found across several parameters of conceptualisation, including schematization and various ‘focal adjustments', which, it is suggested, represent potential sites of ideological reproduction.
AB - In this paper I extend the scope of the Cognitive Linguistic Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) by incorporating Langacker's model of Cognitive Grammar in a critical analysis of press reports of violence in two political protests. In doing so, I address issues recently raised against CDA concerning cognitive equivalence. The paper presents an analysis of the alternative conceptualisations of violence invoked in online reports from The Telegraph vs. The Guardian of two recent political protests. Systematic differences in construal are found across several parameters of conceptualisation, including schematization and various ‘focal adjustments', which, it is suggested, represent potential sites of ideological reproduction.
KW - critical discourse analysis
KW - cognitive grammar
KW - political protests
U2 - 10.1075/jlp.12.3.05har
DO - 10.1075/jlp.12.3.05har
M3 - Journal article
VL - 12
SP - 400
EP - 423
JO - Journal of Language and Politics
JF - Journal of Language and Politics
SN - 1569-2159
IS - 3
ER -