Dear all,
the next instalment of the Newcastle and Northumbria Critical Discourse Group seminar series will welcome David Machin from Cardiff University. David will give a talk entitled “Corporate crime and the discursive deletion of responsibility: A multimodal case study” on Wednesday 25th April at 4pm in Lipman 035, Northumbria University. All welcome!!
Abstract
There has not been such extensive work on media representations of crime in Critical Discourse Analysis, especially on corporate crime. Taking one step to address this situation this presentation assesses the unfolding press representations of one instance where corporate neglect and greed in Britain lead to the deaths of 31 people and the injury of 400 others with horrific burns. The law was in fact changed as a result, although remained as ineffective. This analysis shows how the events were framed in the first place through a discourse of natural disaster with the associated stages of news reporting. It then shows how issues of agency, responsibility and consequences are all represented for the most part through abstraction. All this adds up to an eliding of the criminal nature of these events which also dilute the pressure to genuinely change the law to address corporate crime.
http://www.criticaldiscoursegroup.net/
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