This is an attempt at uncovering to which extent and in what way the reporting on violence in South Africas English language press between 1976 and 2002 has influenced white South Africans views of their country. Throughout the period under investigation, newspapers approached violence with racial concepts in mind. Their (largely white) in-group and the (mainly black) out-group were shown to be facing each other from opposite ends of the good-bad spectrum, and the concept of violence was lexicalised accordingly. My research confirmed that white South Africans attitudes towards violence...
This is an attempt at uncovering to which extent and in what way the reporting on violence in South Africas English language press between 1976 and 20...
