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Controversy as News Discourse

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Authors:
  1. Peter A. Cramer

    1. , Department of English, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

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  • Methodology demonstrates for readers the value of discourse analysis
  • Object of study helps readers understand the role of news in public controversy
  • Approach reveals for readers controversy as a product of speaking and writing
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Argumentation Library (ARGA, volume 19)

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: Where Is Controversy?

    • Peter A. Cramer
    Pages 1-23

  3. Controversies and Texts

    • Peter A. Cramer
    Pages 25-39

  4. Genres of Controversy: The Philosophical Dialogue and the News Article

    • Peter A. Cramer
    Pages 41-73

  5. Controversy as an Event Category

    • Peter A. Cramer
    Pages 75-137

  6. Reporting Controversy in Constructed Dialogue

    • Peter A. Cramer
    Pages 139-175

  7. Locations of Controversy

    • Peter A. Cramer
    Pages 177-190

  8. Back Matter

    Pages 191-203
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About this book

This book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts, focusing on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers. Drawing data from the Reuters Corpus, the project identifies formulas that journalists use in reporting controversy and draws conclusions about how these serve professional and textual functions and how they shape public controversy as a natural, historical, and pragmatic event. While the traditions of dialectic and rhetoric have focused on the prescriptive aim of training participants to resolve controversies in philosophical dialogue or public debate settings, this orientation has tended to preempt questions about where controversy is located and how it is shaped. This project contributes to descriptive, ethnographic research about controversy, using discourse analysis to address a problem in argumentation.

Authors and Affiliations

  • , Department of English, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada

    Peter A. Cramer

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Controversy as News Discourse

  • Authors: Peter A. Cramer

  • Series Title: Argumentation Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1288-1

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-1287-4Published: 20 June 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3655-9Published: 03 August 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-1288-1Published: 17 June 2011

  • Series ISSN: 1566-7650

  • Series E-ISSN: 2215-1907

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 204

  • Topics: Logic, Applied Linguistics

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