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- Title
A rhetorical approach to news discourse: Media representations of a controversial study on ‘Reparative Therapy’.
- Authors
Stewart, Craig O.
- Abstract
In this paper, concepts from rhetorical theory and discourse analysis are combined to illustrate an approach to analyzing news discourse, particularly about controversial science. Specifically, it is shown how macro-news frames and micro-linguistic choices in news texts combine to accomplish the rhetorical goal of demarcating good science from bad science by creating presence for certain interpretations of the news story and by using specific lexical choices motivated by topoi derived from an idealized vision of science. This framework is applied to news discourse about a psychiatric study of ‘reparative therapy’ for homosexuality.
- Subjects
RHETORIC; DISCOURSE analysis; SCIENCE; HOMOSEXUALITY; LINGUISTICS; PSYCHIATRY; THERAPEUTICS
- Publication
Western Journal of Communication, 2005, Vol 69, Issue 2, p147
- ISSN
1057-0314
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/10570310500076858