Media-generated narration/images of the world are used to construct meaning about political and social issues. The lens through which we receive these images is not neutral but evinces the power and point of view of the political and economic elites who operate behind media. Not only are our own ideas moulded in their formulation through (media) language but views are manipulated through (media) discourse as well.The press declared informative communicative purpose of transmitting impersonal data and facts, is simply a biased representation of (c)overt ideologies, a pivotal notion in much recent mass communication research, so extensively demonstrated that it hardly needs to be argued for. While the special genius of this system is to make the whole process seem so normal and natural that the very art of social construction is invisible, our seminar aims at 1) Unveiling its ( textua)l strategies 2) Highlighting overarching meaning potential of language 3)Showing how the press biased representation of ideas/experience is both (cognitively) «semanticized» and (verbally) «grammaticalized» (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004: 452).
Evaluating the Power of Language / Cavaliere, Flavia. - (2014). (Intervento presentato al convegno Evaluating the Power of Language tenutosi a Università degli studi di Messina nel 20 aprile).
Evaluating the Power of Language
CAVALIERE, Flavia
2014
Abstract
Media-generated narration/images of the world are used to construct meaning about political and social issues. The lens through which we receive these images is not neutral but evinces the power and point of view of the political and economic elites who operate behind media. Not only are our own ideas moulded in their formulation through (media) language but views are manipulated through (media) discourse as well.The press declared informative communicative purpose of transmitting impersonal data and facts, is simply a biased representation of (c)overt ideologies, a pivotal notion in much recent mass communication research, so extensively demonstrated that it hardly needs to be argued for. While the special genius of this system is to make the whole process seem so normal and natural that the very art of social construction is invisible, our seminar aims at 1) Unveiling its ( textua)l strategies 2) Highlighting overarching meaning potential of language 3)Showing how the press biased representation of ideas/experience is both (cognitively) «semanticized» and (verbally) «grammaticalized» (Halliday and Matthiessen 2004: 452).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
