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Expressions of blame for the Global Financial Crisis in US, UK and Australian opinion texts
Cope, Jennifer
Cope, Jennifer
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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
Date
2018
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Book chapter
Journal
Book
Crisis and the Media : Narratives of crisis across cultural settings and media genres
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Page Range
59-84
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ACU Department
Institute for Learning Sciences and Teacher Education (ILSTE)
Faculty of Education and Arts
Faculty of Education and Arts
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All rights reserved
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