Agueness and Dissociation in English Political News Discourse

Authors

  • Katarina Damjanić Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Serbia

Keywords:

dissociation, vagueness, broadsheet newspapers, tabloid newspapers, political discourse, pragma-dialectics

Abstract

The main goal of this paper is to indicate the importance of the issues of vagueness and dissociation in discourse interpretation. The discourse that is taken into consideration is the discourse of political news written in the English language. This particular discourse is widely available to readers and deals with important political issues, which is why the choice of words and phrases should ideally be unbiased and accurate. If not, the readers may misinterpret the discourse and have a wrong impression of the political issue. In this research, newspaper articles are taken as an example of political news discourse. All articles analyzed were written in online British and American broadsheet and tabloid newspapers and they all dealt with the migrant crisis and 2019 Hong Kong protests. By taking into consideration the political context and the theoretical framework used in this research, 44 instances considered to be examples of vagueness and dissociation were identified, which were found in 14 newspaper articles.

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Published

2021-12-01

How to Cite

Damjanić, K. (2021). Agueness and Dissociation in English Political News Discourse. Media Studies and Applied Ethics, 2(2), 65–76. Retrieved from http://msae.rs/index.php/home/article/view/28