The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality: Cads Approaches to the British Media

ISBN-13: 9781350192942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 248 str.

Eva M. Gomez-Jimenez; Michaela Mahlberg; Michael Toolan

Spis treści

Introduction: The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality in the UK, Eva M. Gomez-Jimenez (University of Granada, Spain) 1. Poverty and Social Exclusion in Britain: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Study of Labour and Conservative Party Leaders’ Speeches, 1900-2014, Nuria Lorenzo-Dus (Swansea University, UK) and Sadiq Almaged (Thi-Qar University, Iraq) 2. Inequality and ‘The Language of Leadership’ in World War II, Joe Bennett (University of Birmingham, UK) 3. Revisiting the Welfare State Through the Decades: Investigating the Discursive Construction of the Welfare State in The Times from 1940-2009, Isabelle van der Bom (Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany) and Laura Paterson (Open University, UK) 4. What Can Be Done about Child Poverty? What The Times Said Then and What It Says Now, Michael Toolan (University of Birmingham, UK) 5. Inequality, Accountability and Responsibility in UK Press Reporting on Corporate Fraud (2004-2014) and Modern Slavery (2000-2016), Ilse Ras (Leeds University, UK) 6. Health Inequality and the Representation of ‘Risky’ Working Class Identities in Obesity Policy, Jane Mulderrig (University of Sheffield, UK) 7. We Are NOT All in This Together: A Corpus Assisted Critical Stylistics Analysis of Austerity in Print News Media 2009-2010 and 2016-2017, Brian Walker and Lesley Jeffries (University of Huddersfield, UK) 8. More Inequality, but Less Coverage: How and Why TV News Avoided ‘The Great Debate’ Either Side of the Financial Crisis 2008-2014, Richard Thomas (University of Swansea, UK) 9. The Democracy We Live in: Can There Be Democracy without Equality?, Wolfgang Teubert (University of Birmingham, UK) Afterword, Danny Dorling (University of Oxford, UK) Index