Ageing discourse in the news. A corpus-assisted study
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Prezzo online: € 15,00
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ISBN:
9791221805109
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Editore:
Aracne (genzano Di Roma) [collana: Lingua, Discorso E Società]
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Genere:
Saggistica
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Dettagli:
p. 200
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Contenuto
With older people being the fastest growing segment of the world population, the issue of ageing is of significant and mounting concern to global society and has become a popular and newsworthy topic for the media. This work presents a corpus-assisted analysis of how the notion of 'ageing' is construed in the UK press. It combines techniques from corpus linguistics with (critical) discourse studies to analyse a large corpus of newspaper articles (30 million words) representing ten years of ageing coverage. Evidence is provided for predominant representations of ageing and older-age identities which express a society's world views and value systems, implying rules and standards of conduct.
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