Open AccessVAGUENESS AND DISSOCIATION IN ENGLISH POLITICAL NEWS DISCOURSE
Author(s) -
Katarina Damjanić
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
media studies and applied ethics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2683-5355
DOI - 10.46630/msae.2.2021.05
Subject(s) - vagueness , newspaper , politics , linguistics , media studies , political science , sociology , law , philosophy , fuzzy logic
The main goal of this paper is to indicate the importance of the issues of vagueness and dissociation in discourse interpretation. The discourse that is taken into consideration is the discourse of political news written in the English language. This particular discourse is widely available to readers and deals with important political issues, which is why the choice of words and phrases should ideally be unbiased and accurate. If not, the readers may misinterpret the discourse and have a wrong impression of the political issue. In this research, newspaper articles are taken as an example of political news discourse. All articles analyzed were written in online British and American broadsheet and tabloid newspapers and they all dealt with the migrant crisis and 2019 Hong Kong protests. By taking into consideration the political context and the theoretical framework used in this research, 44 instances considered to be examples of vagueness and dissociation were identified, which were found in 14 newspaper articles.