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Chapter 4. Inducing sympathies and antipathies
Abstract
Conflicts have always been highly newsworthy. They receive massive coverage while inducing readers’ sympathies or antipathies, depending on which party in conflict they identify with. By adopting a corpus-assisted approach integrated with discourse analysis, this study focuses on how, in a small corpus of letters published in the press during the 1857–58 uprisings in India, the most frequent keywords and collocation patterns represent the events. The emerging data indicate how language is used to generate emotive reactions towards the Indian rebels in the readership, while legitimising the East India Company officials’ actions with the purpose of developing a sense of shared beliefs in an English identity across the empire by connecting personal concerns to a wider sense of public engagement.
Abstract
Conflicts have always been highly newsworthy. They receive massive coverage while inducing readers’ sympathies or antipathies, depending on which party in conflict they identify with. By adopting a corpus-assisted approach integrated with discourse analysis, this study focuses on how, in a small corpus of letters published in the press during the 1857–58 uprisings in India, the most frequent keywords and collocation patterns represent the events. The emerging data indicate how language is used to generate emotive reactions towards the Indian rebels in the readership, while legitimising the East India Company officials’ actions with the purpose of developing a sense of shared beliefs in an English identity across the empire by connecting personal concerns to a wider sense of public engagement.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
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Section 1. Focus on political contexts
- Chapter 2. British ideologies in the (re)-shaping of the American identity 12
- Chapter 3. Representing Ireland and the Irish in the 17th- and 18th-century English press 33
- Chapter 4. Inducing sympathies and antipathies 56
- Chapter 5. Transformations and the dynamics of memory 82
- Chapter 6. Revolutionary news 108
- Chapter 7. Language and ideology 133
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Section 2. Focus on socio-cultural contexts
- Chapter 8. Female-male relations in letters to the editor in The Orphan Reviv'd: or, Powell’s Weekly Journal (1719–1720) 156
- Chapter 9. “Girls of the period” 177
- Chapter 10. Feminatives in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals in partitioned Poland 200
- Chapter 11. Language ideologies in the 18th century 225
- Index 249
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Preface vii
- Chapter 1. Introduction 1
-
Section 1. Focus on political contexts
- Chapter 2. British ideologies in the (re)-shaping of the American identity 12
- Chapter 3. Representing Ireland and the Irish in the 17th- and 18th-century English press 33
- Chapter 4. Inducing sympathies and antipathies 56
- Chapter 5. Transformations and the dynamics of memory 82
- Chapter 6. Revolutionary news 108
- Chapter 7. Language and ideology 133
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Section 2. Focus on socio-cultural contexts
- Chapter 8. Female-male relations in letters to the editor in The Orphan Reviv'd: or, Powell’s Weekly Journal (1719–1720) 156
- Chapter 9. “Girls of the period” 177
- Chapter 10. Feminatives in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century periodicals in partitioned Poland 200
- Chapter 11. Language ideologies in the 18th century 225
- Index 249
