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This book presents a constitutive approach to controversy based on a discourse analysis of news texts, focusing on the role of journalists as participants who shape public controversy for readers. Drawing data from the Reuters Corpus, the project identifies formulas that journalists use in reporting controversy and draws conclusions about how these serve professional and textual functions and how they shape public controversy as a natural, historical, and pragmatic event. While the traditions of

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Author

Peter A. Cramer (auth.)

Publisher

Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9789400712881

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Linguistics, Literary Fiction, Philosophy

Updated

2026-03-25