Naming and describing offenders and victims

Tabbert, Ulrike

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“…To only collect news stories about adult women offenders against whom the police and/or courts had gathered sufficient evidence to charge them with or convict them of a crime and exclude reports about women who had only been arrested, the following keywords were used for the database search: woman <OR> female <OR> mother <OR> Maori <OR> Pakeha <AND> offender <OR> conviction <OR> convicted <OR> trial <OR> charged <OR> jailed <OR> sentence <OR> sentenced. Only the titles of newspaper articles were searched for these keywords because newspaper editors design headlines to entice the audience (Tabbert, 2016). Hence, the titles of news articles signify newsworthiness and the importance of stories about women who engage in criminal activities (Brennan and Vandenberg, 2009).…”

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Indigeneity matters: Portrayal of women offenders in New Zealand newspapers

Deckert

2019

Crime, Media, Culture

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A growing body of research investigates women’s experiences within New Zealand’s criminal justice system, and several studies have addressed the misrepresentation of crime’s reality in news media. However, the discriminatory depiction of Indigenous women offenders in New Zealand’s press has yet to receive scholarly attention. Indigeneity and gender are both critical factors because Māori women constitute the fastest growing segment of New Zealand’s prison population, and media discourses help shape public consent to penal policies. To address this research gap, New Zealand newspaper articles featuring women offenders were collected over a 2-year period (2016–2018) and analysed for their use of neutralization and exacerbation techniques. The findings reveal that New Zealand newspapers distort our understanding of who is most affected by the criminal justice system and what crimes Pākehā1 and Māori women typically commit. Most importantly, stories about Pākehā women were more likely to use a favourable tone (56.5%), while stories about Māori women were more likely to take on an unfavourable tone (83.3%). Finally, motherhood, as an additional exacerbating factor, was mentioned nearly twice as often for Māori women. This article adds to the body of knowledge on the portrayal of Māori people in the media, linking it to public consent to governmental policies.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Indigeneity matters: Portrayal of women offenders in New Zealand newspapers

Deckert

2019

Crime, Media, Culture

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“…Although they may appear under other headings in this article, many recent studies in language and literature refer to ‘worlds’ (e.g. Mildorf and Kinzel, 2016; Short, 2016; Sorlin, 2016; Tabbert, 2016; Toolan, 2016; Zettelmann, 2017; Zyngier, 2016). The term has become ubiquitous metaphorical shorthand for describing, in general, the reality projected by a text.…”

Section: Worldsmentioning

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“…Critical linguistics is founded on the idea that texts encode particular representations of the world, and, conversely, that texts play a critical part in constructing social ‘realities’. Thus, critical linguists use the term ‘world’ to reflect two sides of the same coin: (a) how the world is represented in a text; and (b) the reality it subsequently produces (see, for example, Davies, 2013; Jeffries, 2015; Tabbert, 2015, 2016). Prefacing her recent investigation into readers’ movements between fictional and real worlds, Bruns refers to the opinion of some literary scholars that works of literature are ‘repositories of worldviews’ (Bruns, 2016: 351), which also emphasises the representational role of literature.…”

Section: Worldsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Like Statham (2016), she is critical of the role of the media in judicial proceedings and both scholars advance powerful critical discourse analyses of the influence of ideology on criminal court proceedings and their media representations, which will no doubt fascinate researchers of Critical Discourse Analysis and critical stylistics, as well as forensic linguists. Both Statham (2016) and Tabbert (2016) use corpora to support the qualitative analyses of their data; while Tabbert’s work sits firmly within the remit of critical stylistics, Statham deftly navigates the critical–forensic interface of linguistics. In both books, the clear organisation and logical progression of the arguments make them a pleasure to read.…”

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The year’s work in stylistics 2016

Lugea

2017

Language and Literature: International Journal of Stylistics

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“…In working towards a theoretical framework for the present paper, S&S’s work is a good starting point. S&S are believed to have produced the most comprehensive model of speech presentation (Tabbert, 2016, p. 138), covering literary texts, (auto)biographies and, crucially, newspaper articles. Developing an earlier model by Leech and Short (1981) that had been based on literary texts, the new model consists of the following categories: Narrator’s Presentation of Voice (NV); Narrator’s Report of Speech Act (NRSA); Indirect Speech (IS); Free-Indirect Speech (FIS); Direct Speech (DS); and Free-Direct Speech (FDS).…”

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Language choice and direct speech presentation in Kinyarwanda news articles

Gafaranga

2017

International Journal of Bilingualism

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Aims/objectives/purpose/research questions: This paper investigates the issue of language choice in direct speech presentation (DS) in Kinyarwanda news articles. Two specific research questions are addressed: 1. What is the default medium of DS in these texts and how can it be accounted? 2. Can the default medium be deviated from and what functions does deviance serve? Design/methodology/approach: An inductive discourse analytic methodology. Data and Analysis: Data consist of instances of DS extracted from Kinyarwanda news texts published in two Rwandan news media blogs, namely Igihe and Umuseke. Findings/conclusions: Analysis of the data reveals that, in DS, the medium of the original discourse is incidental and that the default medium of DS is Kinyarwanda. In turn, this is interpreted as conforming to the general discourse organisation principle of preference for same medium discourse. Analysis also revealed that this medium can be deviated from either because of issues in the medium itself or in order to serve specific discourse-related functions. Finally, analysis revealed that, in each case, two options are available, namely to merely reproduce verbatim items from original speech and to enter them in translinguistic apposition structures. In the latter possibility, the direction of switch is found to be significant as, in the case of issues in the medium, switching typically takes the direction Kinyarwanda–non-Kinyarwanda, while, in the case of discourse-related functions, the typical direction of switching is reversed. Originality/significance/implications: Language choice in news texts, and in DS environments in particular, remains under-investigated. Therefore, this paper serves as a call for further investigations of this aspect of language use. Also, the study has practical implications for the training of media professionals in the context it has investigated.

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Naming and describing offenders and victims

Cited by 4 publications

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Indigeneity matters: Portrayal of women offenders in New Zealand newspapers

Indigeneity matters: Portrayal of women offenders in New Zealand newspapers

The year’s work in stylistics 2016

Language choice and direct speech presentation in Kinyarwanda news articles

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