A Rhetorical Approach to News Discourse: Media Representations of a Controversial Study on 'Reparative Therapy'

被引：11
|
作者：
Stewart, Craig O. [1 ]
机构：
[1] Carnegie Mellon Univ, Rhetor, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 USA
来源：
WESTERN JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION | 2005年 / 69卷 / 02期
关键词：
Discourse Analysis; News Discourse; Rhetoric of Science; 'Reparative Therapy'; 'Ex-gay';
D O I：
10.1080/10570310500076858
中图分类号：
G2 [信息与知识传播];
学科分类号：
05 ; 0503 ;
摘要：
In this paper, concepts from rhetorical theory and discourse analysis are combined to illustrate an approach to analyzing news discourse, particularly about controversial science. Specifically, it is shown how macro-news frames and micro-linguistic choices in news texts combine to accomplish the rhetorical goal of demarcating good science from bad science by creating presence for certain interpretations of the news story and by using specific lexical choices motivated by topoi derived from an idealized vision of science. This framework is applied to news discourse about a psychiatric study of 'reparative therapy' for homosexuality.
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页码：147 / 166
页数：20
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