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Category Archives: Discourse – text
Blurring the lines of folk and expert theory
Its All Semantics – Freakonomics – Opinion – New York Times Blog A similarly obtuse but less jargon-laden example of unintentially comedic writing is the title of IRS form 5213, which I am convinced was penned by Terry Gilliam a … Continue reading
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Folk theories of conceptual causality and collective autonomy
Film examines Daily Mail ‘diet’ | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited In the footsteps of Supersize Me, a documentary-maker has attempted to find out whether we are what we read by giving up all news sources except the Daily Mail. … Continue reading
Bill O’Reilly on the 8:05 from Brighton
‘Bourne’ flick is ultimately un-American – Opinion & Editorial – BostonHerald.com I knew this movie was trouble when I read the reviews. Almost all the critics liked it. The only way American movie critics would like a violent car-chase film … Continue reading
Bi-furcated narrative frames in public policy debates
Confessions of a BBC liberal – Times Online There is a perfectly reasonable case for progressive liberal reform of penal policy. There is also a perfectly reasonable case for a stricter and more punitive penal policy. This programme was quite … Continue reading
Metaphoric inferencing in action and the negotiation of interpretive privilege
Making Light: Bookstore chain puts the screws on small publishers We have concluded that we have far too many suppliers, Malarkey again. Rimmer is inappropriately borrowing language from other industries, as though A&R were a construction firm and he’d noticed … Continue reading
Posted in Analogies, Cognition, Discourse - text, Framing, Social Science
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Anecdotes, metaphors and the negotiated truth
Media Matters – “Media Matters”; by Jamison Foser “I believe in the usefulness and validity of the telling anecdote — the seemingly small story that reveals a broader truth about a politician or other subject,” Carney wrote. And who can … Continue reading
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Schematic imagery as euphemistic framing in war news reporting
Analysis: Military Shows Gains in Iraq Despite political setbacks, American commanders are clinging to a hope that stability might be built from the bottom up—with local groups joining or aiding U.S. efforts to root out extremists—rather than from the top … Continue reading
Media and scenarios of public opinion formation
Disfavor for Bush Hits Rare Heights – washingtonpost.com That may stem in part from the changing nature of society. When Caddell’s boss was president, there were three major broadcast networks. Today cable news, talk radio and the Internet have made … Continue reading
Negotiating image projections: Who has the power?
New Statesman – Who is the real Hillary? she is certainly the most extraordinarily self-disciplined politician I have ever watched in action. But then she has to be, because she must balance the projection of images of supposedly masculine US … Continue reading
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Professional linguists and folk theory of language
Language Log: The Linguistic Abilities of the Presidential Candidates For what it’s worth, if we count only confirmed languages spoken fluently or reasonably well, the average number of languages other than English spoken by the Democrats is 0.83, by the … Continue reading
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