American and British Media: Similarities and Differences in Framing Terrorism Cover Image

Američki i britanski mediji – sličnosti i razlike u okvirima izvještavanja o temi terorizma
American and British Media: Similarities and Differences in Framing Terrorism

Author(s): Ljerka Jeftić
Subject(s): Media studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Security and defense, Philology
Published by: Филолошки факултет Универзитета у Бањој Луци
Keywords: War on Terrorism; frame; discourse; deictic center;

Summary/Abstract: Postulating the changed perception of ‘terrorism’ in the media following the events on 11 September 2001 in New York, and in line with the claim that the media help reproduce preformulated ideologies, the paper presents the ways of framing terrorism in the up-market press in the United States of America and Great Britain. Dominant frames have been identified within the theoretical framework of cognitive approach to critical discourse analysis. In the paper, this approach incorporated the concepts from Chilton’s ’proximisation theory’ pertaining to mental processing of a discourse.

  • Issue Year: 2013
  • Issue No: 7
  • Page Range: 40-46
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Serbian