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dc.title Manipulative discursive constructions in British and Ukrainian reporting of the MH17 downing en
dc.contributor.author Shurma, Svitlana
dc.relation.ispartof Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe
dc.identifier.issn 2573-9638 Scopus Sources, Sherpa/RoMEO, JCR
dc.date.issued 2020
utb.relation.volume 28
utb.relation.issue 2-3
dc.citation.spage 225
dc.citation.epage 247
dc.type article
dc.language.iso en
dc.publisher Taylor and Francis Ltd.
dc.identifier.doi 10.1080/25739638.2020.1863643
dc.relation.uri https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/25739638.2020.1863643
dc.subject critical discourse analysis en
dc.subject lie en
dc.subject manipulation en
dc.subject narrative en
dc.subject social actors en
dc.subject visual metaphor en
dc.subject visual metonymy en
dc.description.abstract This article deals with manipulative discursive strategies used by the British BBC and Ukrainian TSN news broadcasters on their websites while reporting the incident of the MH17 downing over Ukraine on 17 July 2014. It was assumed that discursive manipulation would be different for the two countries, with the British maintaining a seemingly neutral position in reporting the tragic event, and the Ukrainians–more personally affected and therefore more biased–appearing more manipulative. The analysis methods applied included discursive, linguostylistic, and narratological approaches, as well as multimodal metaphor and metonymy, corpus, and CDA perspectives. The focus is on the social actors and the language of headlines, photo cuts related to them, and narratives. The BBC and TSN foreground some social agents involved in the MH17 tragedy and foreshadow others. The discursive strategies applied in the headlines reflect the ideological messages of the two countries and the broadcasters’ policies, as they focus on local representation, evinced by the vocabulary used and social actors mentioned, visual metaphors and metonymies at play. To create an intrigue matrix necessary for a successful narrative, the BBC offered stories in which the voices of victims are heard, while the TSN almost exclusively focused on official opinions. © 2020 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. en
utb.faculty Faculty of Humanities
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10563/1010118
utb.identifier.obdid 43882025
utb.identifier.scopus 2-s2.0-85097617588
utb.source j-scopus
dc.date.accessioned 2021-01-05T10:46:10Z
dc.date.available 2021-01-05T10:46:10Z
utb.ou Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
utb.contributor.internalauthor Shurma, Svitlana
utb.fulltext.affiliation Svitlana Shurma Assistant Professor at the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Tomas Bata University in Zlín , Zlín, Czech Republic. Correspondence shurma@utb.cz lanashurma@gmail.com ORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2183-2338
utb.fulltext.dates Published online: 16 Dec 2020
utb.scopus.affiliation Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Zlín, Czech Republic
utb.fulltext.faculty Faculty of Humanities
utb.fulltext.ou Department of Modern Languages and Literatures
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