Newspaper Portrayal of Teachers: A Comparative Study of Representations of Teachers in a British and a Czech Broadsheet

Abstract

The study compares representations of teachers in the Czech broadsheet Mladá frontaand the British broadsheet The Daily Telegraph, aiming to reveal their possible impacton the level of public respect towards teachers. The methodology employed is criticaldiscourse analysis, combining an investigation of semantic macrostructures and recurrenttransitivity patterns. It is revealed that both newspapers call attention to problems regardingthe teaching profession, advocating social change and higher job prestige. The socialsignificance of a teacher is enhanced in both newspapers by allocating a teacher not onlythe role of a transmitter of knowledge but also a moral guide concerned with social issues.The main difference between the two broadsheets is that The Daily Telegraph foregroundsteachers’ wrongdoings, while Mladá fronta highlights teachers’ accomplishments. Thisseems to be mainly due to the inclusion of a section with regional content in the Czechbroadsheet.

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