Language and Crime : Constructing Offenders and Victims in Newspaper Reports

This book offers a systematic introduction to the linguistic analysis of newspaper reports on crime. The author demonstrates how the linguistic analysis of newspaper texts helps to gain insight into the construction of offenders and victims in those texts and links the findings to criminological frameworks. Tabbert employs Critical Stylistics to explore the description of participants, the presentation of speech as well as actions, states or events, and other linguistic devices employed by journalists to present a particular image of an offender or a victim in the press. This book shows the fruitfulness of an interdisciplinary approach to reveal predominant discourse on crime in society and will be of great interest to researchers in linguistics, criminology and media studies.

ISBN:	9781137453501
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Imprint:	Palgrave Macmillan
Published date:	28 Nov 2016
DEWEY:	070.449364
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xx, 239
Weight:	395g
Height:	214mm
Width:	135mm
Spine width:	31mm

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