NEWS ANALYSIS - Teun A. van Dijk

NEWS ANALYSIS

CASE STUDIES OF INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL NEWS IN THE PRESS

TEUN A. VAN DIJK

University of Amsterdam

LAWRENCE ERLBAUM ASSOCIATES, PUBLISHERS

1988 Hillsdale, New Jersey

Hove and London

COMMUNICATION

A series of volumes edited by Dolph Zillmann and Jennings Bryant

ZILLMANN AND BRYANT Selective Exposure to Communication

BEVILLE Audience Ratings: Radio, Television, and Cable

BRYANT AND ZILLMANN Perspectives on Media Effects

GOLDSTEIN Reporting Science: The Case of Aggression

ELLIS AND DONOHUE Contemporary Issues in Language and Discourse Processes

WINETT Information and Behavior: Systems of Influence

HUESMANN AND ERON Television and the Aggressive Child: A Cross-National Comparison

GUNTER Poor Reception: Misunderstanding and Forgetting Broadcast News

OLASKY Corporate Public Relations: A New Historical Perspective

DONOHEW, SYPHER, AND HIGGINS Communication, Social Cognition, and Affect

VAN DIJK News Analysis: Case Studies of International News in the Press

VAN DIJK News as Discourse

CONTENTS

PREFACE ix

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiii

1 THE ANALYSIS OF NEWS AS DISCOURSE /

News as Discourse 1

The Development of Discourse Analysis

3

Discourse Structures and News Reports

8

Processing News as Discourse 18

2 STRUCTURES OF INTERNATIONAL NEWS 31

International News 31

The Setup of the Case Study 64

Quantitative Results 67

Thematic Structures

72

Schematic Structures 91

Local Semantics 99

Style and Rhetoric 108

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CONTENTS

Photographs 115 The Use of Agency and Correspondent's Reports 116 Opinions in Editorials and News Articles 124 Conclusions 129

3 RACISM AND THE PRESS 135

Introduction: Ethnic Groups and Squatters in the Media 135 Some General Properties of Domestic News 139 News in the Dutch Press: General Data 144 Mass Media and the Reproduction of Racism 149 Properties of News About Ethnic Minority Groups 161 Processing News About Minorities 200 Contexts and Conclusions 208

4 THE TAMIL PANIC IN THE PRESS 215

Tamils in the Press 216 The Corpus 217 Tamils in the Netherlands: Installments of the Story 218 A Few Descriptive Results 219 The Headlines: Defining the Situation 226 Thematic Structures 230 Schematic Structures 233 Local Semantics and Style 235 Public Opinion 246 Talk About Tamils 247 Television News 248 Conclusions 251

5 SQUATTERS IN THE PRESS 255

Introduction 255 Backgrounds: Housing and Squatting in Amsterdam 256 The Events of October 9, 1981 257 The Role of the Press: Earlier Studies 260 Setup of the Case Study and Some Quantitative Results 262 Thematic Structures 266 Schematic Structures 270 Local Semantics 270 Style 276 Rhetoric 278 Other Media and Messages 283 Conclusions 285

6 CONCLUSIONS 289

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APPENDLX 295

REFERENCES 303

AUTIIOR INDEX 315

SUBJECT INDEX 321

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