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Controversy as News DiscourseControversies and Texts

Controversy as News Discourse: Controversies and Texts [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 investigators tend to take toward texts that report public controversies: the supportive, the distortive, and the constitutive. In the supportive and distortive attitudes, the investigator uses texts to form a veridical account of controversy as an event. In the constitutive attitude, the investigator analyzes texts that report controversy. The constitutive attitude is particularly well-paired with discourse analysis as a method as it takes its object of study to be the texts that narrate controversies. Adopting this sort of attitude toward texts leads the investigator to recognize journalists as participants whose writing helps to shape public controversies for news readers.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Controversy as News DiscourseControversies and Texts

Part of the Argumentation Library Book Series (volume 19)
Cramer, Peter A.
Controversy as News Discourse — May 9, 2011
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Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Copyright
© Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011
ISBN
978-94-007-1287-4
Pages
25 –39
DOI
10.1007/978-94-007-1288-1_2
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Abstract

[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 investigators tend to take toward texts that report public controversies: the supportive, the distortive, and the constitutive. In the supportive and distortive attitudes, the investigator uses texts to form a veridical account of controversy as an event. In the constitutive attitude, the investigator analyzes texts that report controversy. The constitutive attitude is particularly well-paired with discourse analysis as a method as it takes its object of study to be the texts that narrate controversies. Adopting this sort of attitude toward texts leads the investigator to recognize journalists as participants whose writing helps to shape public controversies for news readers.]

Published: May 9, 2011

Keywords: Supportive Attitude; Speech Event; Focal Event; Epistemic Authority; Objectivity Norm

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