The ideologies behind newspaper crime reports of Latinos and Wall Street/CEOs: a critical analysis of metonymy in text and image

Catalano, Theresa; Waugh, Linda R.

doi:10.1080/17405904.2013.813774

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“…"Frequently, then, the truly powerless, rather than the truly evil, are demonized and stigmatized in the popular media" (Greer and Jewkes 2005, 29). A good example of research that examines how the wealthy and powerful are represented positively while minority groups and those without power are represented negatively in discourse about crime can be seen in Catalano and Waugh (2013). In this study, the authors found that Latino migrants were represented negatively in media discourse while CEOs convicted of heinous crimes were represented positively and in non-crime frames.…”

Section: Crime Media and Teachersmentioning

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Representing teachers as criminals in the news: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of the Atlanta schools’ “Cheating Scandal”

Catalano

Gatti

2016

Social Semiotics

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On April 1, 2015, 11 Atlanta teachers accused of changing answers on their students' standardized tests were convicted of racketeering and sentenced to 5-20 years in prison. Despite ample news coverage, few sources investigated teachers' motivations for altering students' responses or explored what the consequences would have been if student scores had not been changed to passing. Moreover, the fact that the teachers' actions resulted from systemic problems associated with working within a high-stakes testing environment is glossed over and all but lost in the reporting of the "Cheating Scandal" events. The authors conduct a critical multimodal analysis of how semiotic resources were used to represent teachers in the Atlanta "Cheating Scandal" and show how the media's framing of teachers both reflects and conceals specific interests of the powerful educational reform movement and the corporations that benefit from it, such as Pearson, Inc. Data sources included four online news sources from April 2015 that covered the teachers' sentencing, and the authors analyzed the visual and verbal transformations that occurred during the process of recontextualization. Analysis revealed the construction of a moral narrative that depicted the teachers as selfish and incompetent, reinforcing the dominant paradigm driving school reform in the USA. The authors conclude by calling for more counter-narratives that expose how dominant representations reify negative public perceptions of teachers.

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Section: Crime Media and Teachersmentioning

confidence: 73%

Representing teachers as criminals in the news: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of the Atlanta schools’ “Cheating Scandal”

Catalano

Gatti

2016

Social Semiotics

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“…These comprise pragmatic strategies, discourse patterns and specific linguistic means such as metaphors and metonymies to reproduce stereotypes, ideologies, prejudice and identities (Catalano & Waugh, 2013; van Dijk, 2001;Horvat, Verschueren, & Žagar, 2001;Kazharsky, 2013;Kozlov, 2012;Le, 2006;Sowińska & Dubrovskaya, 2012b inter alios). Studies on the techniques of discursive construction of international relations also cover such discursive mechanisms as lexical construction of meanings (e.g.…”

Section: International Relations and Discourse Analysis: Literature Rmentioning

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Media construction of Russia’s international relations: specifics of representations

Dubrovskaya

Kozhemyakin

2016

Critical Discourse Studies

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This paper discusses the mechanisms of discursive construction of Russia's international relations and intends to identify such mechanisms in the media. Using the framework that is informed by social constructionism and Critical Discourse Analysis, the authors view international relations as a discursive phenomenon, which is constructed through a specific repertoire of pragmalinguistic means. Drawing on the Russian foreign minister's speech and its representations in Russian newspapers, the authors conduct a case study analysis and reveal that the representations of international relations undergo recontextualisation in the media as compared to the representations in proper diplomatic discourse. The newspapers offer avenues for ideologically charged interpretations through chronotope representations and the strategy of emotionalisation. The media also widen the discursive context of international relations by way of the inclusion of heterogeneous social actors, which are grouped in a way that discloses a conflict potential in their relations. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…The results of their research showed that the social and psychological dimensions of CCA guide teachers in addressing how the social context of language and culture affect interactions with representatives from different cultures. According to K. Nugent and T. Catalano, critical cultural awareness should be treated as an expansion of intercultural communicative competence and must become an important part of the foreign language classroom [11]. This attitude helps students to deeper penetrate into the problem of understanding differences and common features of different cultures thus solving effectively the problem of connecting classrooms to real situations of global community.…”

Section: себя две теоретические дисциплины («межкультурная и поликульmentioning

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“…Inside the theory of intercultural communicative competence some scientists started to speak about enhancing the role of cultural critical awareness -CCA -while teaching foreign languages (M. Byrom [7,8], K. Nugent and T. Catalano [11] and others). The results of their research showed that the social and psychological dimensions of CCA guide teachers in addressing how the social context of language and culture affect interactions with representatives from different cultures.…”

Section: себя две теоретические дисциплины («межкультурная и поликульmentioning

confidence: 99%

The new position of foreign language as education for global citizenship

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Kostina²,

Petrovna³

2016

NSPU Bulletin

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The ideologies behind newspaper crime reports of Latinos and Wall Street/CEOs: a critical analysis of metonymy in text and image

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Cited by 35 publications

References 20 publications

Representing teachers as criminals in the news: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of the Atlanta schools’ “Cheating Scandal”

Representing teachers as criminals in the news: a multimodal critical discourse analysis of the Atlanta schools’ “Cheating Scandal”

Media construction of Russia’s international relations: specifics of representations

The new position of foreign language as education for global citizenship

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