Overview
- Explores how offenders are represented in the media and how a story is constructed around their crimes
- Bridges the gaps between linguistics and criminology by examining the media landscape in Britain
- Uses Critical Stylistics to explore all aspects of the presentation of criminals and victims in newspaper press articles
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“This is an imaginative and creative approach to analysing the newsworthyness' of crime. … Dr. Tabbert offers an accessible and engaging critical account of the various elements involved in the production of reported crime in the press and shows clearly and systematically the way social values and norms around serious crime and victimisation are reinforced in subtle yet persuasive forms. It is extremely well written, lucid, concise but thorough in the linguistic analysis of the reporting of crime, it offers a distinctive and unique approach to understanding the social construction of crime. It would be of immense interest to linguists, criminologists, as well as those interested in journalism and media studies.” (Tom Considine, Senior Lecturer, University of Huddersfield, UK)
“This linguistic study of crime reporting in the online edition of The Guardian gives the text its rightful priority of place and successfully demonstrates the benefits of an analysis using critical stylistic tools in order to explore the textual construction of victims and offenders, and the linguistic relationships between text and ideology. This book will be of special interest to criminologists, as well as discourse analysts.” (Brian Walker, Visiting Research Fellow, University of Huddersfield, UK)
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Book Title: Language and Crime
Book Subtitle: Constructing Offenders and Victims in Newspaper Reports
Authors: Ulrike Tabbert
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-45351-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-45350-1Published: 28 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-45351-8Published: 15 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 239
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 7 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociolinguistics, Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Linguistics, general, Media and Communication, Media Studies, Discourse Analysis