Open AccessPolitical discourse approach applied the current study issue occurred
Author(s) -
Gloria Monica Woodlove,
Mike Emerson Vurly
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
linguistics and culture review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2690-103X
DOI - 10.21744/lingcure.v1n1.3
Subject(s) - politics , field (mathematics) , meaning (existential) , visibility , public relations , public sphere , focus (optics) , political science , public domain , epistemology , sociology , law , history , geography , philosophy , physics , mathematics , optics , archaeology , meteorology , pure mathematics
The research was to aim at approaching a political discourse as an effort to solve the issues. News reporting assigns meaning to issues by providing a continuous record of public events and visibility to the claims of actors. The public sphere is an important field where social problems are constructed and political alternatives become defined. When one considers these functions, it is hardly surprising that news has become an important source of data for a group of researchers who are interested in studying the nature of political challenges that are mobilized in the public domain. However, there sometimes appears to be a tendency within the social movements field to let theoretical development outrun a discussion on the methods with which we are equipped to address our research questions. In this contribution, our focus will be self-consciously directed to methods, and more precisely we make specific proposals regarding how the important methodological developments that have been made in the field in recent times, might be profitably extended.