Machine generated contents note: 9. The Democracy We Live In: Can There Be Democracy Without Equality? / Wolfgang Teubert. 2. Inequality And `The Language Of Leadership' In The Second World War / Joe Spencer-Bennett -- 3. Revisiting The Welfare State Through The Decades: Investigating The Discursive Construction Of The Welfare State In The Times From 1940 To 2009 / Laura L. Paterson -- 4. What Can Be Done About Child Poverty? What The Times Said Then And What It Says Now / Michael Toolan -- 5. Inequality, Accountability And Responsibility In Uk Press Reporting On Corporate Fraud (2004-14) And Modern Slavery (2000-16) / Ilse A. Ras -- 6. Health Inequality And The Representation Of `Risky' Working-Class Identities In Obesity Policy / Jane Mulderrig -- 7. We Are Not All In This Together: A Corpus-Assisted Critical Stylistics Analysis Of Austerity In Print News Media 2009-10 And 2016-17 Lesley / Brian Walker -- 8. More Inequality, But Less Coverage: How And Why Tv News Avoided "The Great Debate' Either Side Of The Financial Crisis 2008-14 / Richard Thomas -- 9. The Democracy We Live In: Can There Be Democracy Without Equality? / Wolfgang Teubert.
Summary:
"This book uses a range of different real text samples to explore how wealth inequality has been portrayed in the British media in the decades between the Second World War and the present day. Using a Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies framework, chapters present an historical overview to reveal how mass media discourse has helped make increased wealth inequality look perfectly normal. Print, radio and online media sources are interrogated by a combined methodology drawing from critical discourse analysis, critical stylistics and corpus linguistics in order to examine the influence of media on economic policies and its role in making Britain a less egalitarian society. Covering topics such as Second World War propaganda, the 'Change4Life' anti-obesity campaign, the Football Lads Alliance (FLA) Twitter movement and UK General Elections, The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality will be of value to any linguist interested in economic inequality and mass media"-- Provided by publisher.
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