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Controversy as News Discourse

Part of the Argumentation Library Book Series (volume 19)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-1288-1

ISBN: 978-94-007-1287-4

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

May 9, 2011

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Chapter 1Introduction: Where Is Controversy?

Cramer, Peter A.

Pages: 1 –23

[A prominent, traditional approach to controversy emphasizes problem solving, seeking to develop general methods for its ethical and effective resolution, or particular therapeutic interventions designed for particular cases. The investigator seeks to intervene in a controversy and to resolve it...
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Chapter 2Controversies and Texts

Cramer, Peter A.

Pages: 25 –39

[While the discourse arts have tended to foreground as their object of study the arguments of interlocutors in dialogue, a controversy can present many facets depending upon the sources by which investigators access the event, and how they use those sources as data. There are three attitudes...
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Chapter 3Genres of Controversy: The Philosophical Dialogue and the News Article

Cramer, Peter A.

Pages: 41 –73

[Genres and institutional norms in both the discourse arts and in journalism contribute to the shape of controversy. The philosophical dialogue genre is a cultural prototype for decision making dialogues, a genre that is linked to the dialogue model, a normative framework that has contributed...
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Chapter 4Controversy as an Event Category

Cramer, Peter A.

Pages: 75 –137

[Controversy is a term that journalists (and others) use in their texts and discourse, a feature of language in use. In news discourse it is routinely used as an event category, a way of naming and categorizing the events that journalists report. Journalists narrate controversies using event...
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Chapter 5Reporting Controversy in Constructed Dialogue

Cramer, Peter A.

Pages: 139 –175

[Journalists use constructed dialogue to narrate controversies in their reporting. They develop interlocutor profiles, constructing dialogues among participants whom they nominate and voice through reported speech. These are extended pragmatic event formulas, and through them, journalists provide...
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Chapter 6Locations of Controversy

Cramer, Peter A.

Pages: 177 –190

[The narrated news event and the news reading situation are two key locations of controversy that are highlighted in the study of controversy as news discourse. In contrast to the direct dialogue of the classical speaking situation, the indirect dialogues of news discourse toggle attention...

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