TY - BOOK ID - 664819 TI - Oppositions and ideology in news discourse PY - 2014 SN - 9781472571816 9781441180605 9781441160447 9781441146335 1441160442 1441146334 9781283853552 1283853558 1441180605 1441146334 1472571819 PB - London Bloomsbury DB - UniCat KW - Pragmatics KW - Stilistics KW - English language KW - Mass communications KW - Analyse du discours KW - Médias et politique KW - Presse KW - Journalisme KW - Debates and debating in mass media KW - Discourse analysis KW - Mass media KW - Journalism KW - Ideology KW - Aspect politique KW - Objectivité KW - Langage KW - Political aspects KW - Objectivity KW - Language. KW - Langage. KW - Semiotics. KW - Writing (Authorship) KW - Literature KW - Publicity KW - Fake news KW - Semeiotics KW - Semiology (Linguistics) KW - Semantics KW - Signs and symbols KW - Structuralism (Literary analysis) KW - Semiotics KW - Debates and debating in mass media. KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Philosophy KW - Political science KW - Psychology KW - Thought and thinking KW - Discourse grammar KW - Text grammar UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:664819 AB - Constructed opposition has proved as viable an area of research as traditional antonymy, and a useful tool in looking at ideologically orientated texts. This book investigates how binary oppositions are constructed discursively and the potential ideological repercussions of their usage in news reports in the British press. The focus is particularly on the positive presentation of groups and individuals subsumed under the first person plural pronouns 'us' and 'we', and the simultaneous marginalization of groups designated as 'they' or 'them'. Exploring the dynamic relations between the linguist ER -