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J. I. Marín Arrese (ed.)
CONCEPTUALIZATION OF EVENTS IN NEWSPAPER
DISCOURSE:
MYSTIFICATION OF AGENCY AND DEGREE OF
IMPLICATION IN NEWS REPORTS
J. I. Marín
Arrese (ed.)
Conceptualization
of events in newspaper discourse:
mystification
of agency and degree of implication in news reports.
Universidad
Complutense de Madrid, 2002
ISBN
84-699-97246
Proyectos
Complutense 2000, PR52/00-8888.
“The
purpose of the study was twofold: (1) the identification of qualitative and
quantitative differences in the use of impersonalization strategies between the
two languages, i.e. whether the same type of strategies are used in the two
languages and the extent to which they are used and (2) the correlation between
the use of strategies and the degree of implication of the country, and
consequently of the news producer, in the event reported. We thus established a
gradient, from those news reports depicting a situation where neither Britain
nor Spain is alluded to or implicated, to a situation where each country is
both mentioned and implicated in the event. The texts were selected from the
National and International sections of The Guardian and The Times in English,
and from El País, ABC and La Vanguardia in Spanish over the period from January
2000 to April 2002. The corpus consists of a total of 94 texts in English
(62,782 words), and 93 texts in Spanish (63,594 words).” (from the editor’s
introduction)
The book,
in pdf format, is published on line in the “Research Reports” section of the
“UCM Papers and Studies in Linguistics”,by the Department of English Language
and Linguistics of the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.
http://www.ucm.es/info/fing1/psl/Research/research.html
Contents
Introduction
Juana I.
Marín Arrese
1. Hiding
the Agent in English and Spanish Newspaper Articles: The Periphrastic Passive
Mª Luisa
Blanco Gómez
2.
Mystification of Agency in Passive, Impersonal and Spontaneous Situation Types
Juana I.
Marín Arrese
3.
Nominalization as Impersonalization Strategy: Some Corpus Notes for the Study
of Agency Mystification
Soledad
Pérez de Ayala Becerril
4.
Impersonalization and Reference in English and Spanish: Evidence from Newspaper
Discourse
Elena
Martínez Caro
5. Metaphor
and Metonymy in the Representation of Agency
JoAnne Neff
van Aertselaer
©
Circle of Linguistics Applied to Communication/ Círculo de Lingüística
Aplicada a la Comunicación 16, November 2003. ISSN 1576-4737.
http://www.ucm.es/info/circulo/no16/marin.htm