Discourse, Media, and Conflict: Examining War and Resolution in the News

ISBN-13: 9781316513408 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 370 str.

Chiluwa, Innocent

Opis

This book applies approaches in linguistics to analyse the role of news media in conflict and peace processes.

Spis treści

Preface Ramsbotham Oliver; Introduction: Media, conflict and peace-building Innocent Chiluwa; 1. Elian Gonzalez in New York times: Media roles in the trajectories of international conflict Mark Finney and Sarah Fisher; 2. The construction of threat of 'Islamist terrorism' in German newspapers Enis Bicer, Lina Brink, Alejandra Nieves Camacho; 3. 'Herdsmen are terrorists': Analysing news headlines on the herder-farmer conflict in the Nigerian press Innocent Chiluwa, Isioma M. Chiluwa, Angie O. Igbinoba; 4. Covering the war on Iraq: The pragmatics of framing and visual rhetoric in newspaper war photographs Ahmed Sahlane; 5. Making a case for war: CNN and the representations of humanitarianism, Gadhafi and NATO in the 2011 bombing of Libya Ada Peter, Innocent Chiluwa; 6. 'The situation on the Korean Peninsula': Voice of America and China radio international on China and the USA about the North Korean Conflict Valerie A. Cooper; 7. Against a hard-earned peace: (De)legitimation discourses of political violence in online press statements of dissident Republicans in post conflict Northern Ireland Stephen Golding; 8. Ideological exclusion: Defining the (dis)believer in online extremist Muslim periodical – Dabiq and Inspire Troy E. Spier; 9. Violence for social change: An analysis of #feesmustfall movement in South Africa Fiona Chawana, Ufuoma Akpojivi; 10. The language of peace in conflict transformation: A critical analysis of The New York Times' coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement and its role in the discursive context of the Oslo negotiations Giuliana Tiripelli; 11. The historical context in media narratives in search of peaceful resolution to the Israel-Palestine conflict: A comparative study of BBC and Aljazeera Jelena Timotijevic; 12. From peace talks to military operation: Pakistani newspapers' representation of the TTP conflict Lubna Shaheen, Muhammad Tarique; 13. From collision to diplomatic compromise: 'We are sorry' – one official utterance, different interpretations in the Chinese and US mainstream news coverage of the 2001 mid-air plane collision Lutgard Lams; 14. Constructing identities in crisis situations: A study of the 'volunteer' in the Spanish and English press María del Mar Sánchez Ramos; Conclusion Innocent Chiluwa.