Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts

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Cope, Jennifer. (2018). Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts. In Crisis and the Media : Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres pp. 59-84 John Benjamins Publishing Company. https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.76.04cop

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Authors	Cope, Jennifer
Abstract	The Global Financial Crisis has had a devastating effect on many economies, with reverberations still being felt today. While the media has focused on the Crisis in affected regions, there is a surprising lack of research on the actual discourse used by key players to express blame and responsibility for the Crisis. This chapter provides an in-depth comparative analysis between the expressions of blame in American, British and Australian newspaper opinion texts, written by authors from differing political backgrounds. It finds that communication strategies of blame are directly and indirectly attributed, rather than resisted or avoided. The chapter is developed from a larger discourse study by Cope (2016), and looks specifically at the relationship between political authors and positioning.
Keywords	crisis communication; discourse study; financial crisis; attribution of blame; blame and responsibility; positioning; communication strategies; opinion texts; political authors
Page range	59-84
Year	01 Jan 2018
Book title	Crisis and the Media : Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres
Publisher	John Benjamins Publishing Company
Place of publication	Netherlands
Series	Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
ISBN	978-9-02-726442-8
ISSN	1569-9463
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)	https://doi.org/10.1075/dapsac.76.04cop
Web address (URL)	https://benjamins.com/catalog/dapsac.76.04cop
Open access	Published as non-open access
Publisher's version	License All rights reserved File Access Level Controlled
Output status	Published
Online	22 Feb 2018
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Accepted	2018
Deposited	24 Feb 2025
Additional information	© 2018 – John Benjamins B.V. All rights reserved.

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