Linguistic purification of violence in the press: a comparative critical discourse analysis of execution news
Abstract The aim of this study is to probe for the discursive construction of shared beliefs about capital punishment. Drawing upon a specialized corpus of execution news, the study explores representational practices, including social actor naming, action description, and incorporation of voices, a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Springer Nature
2023-09-01
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| Series: | Humanities & Social Sciences Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02088-w |