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This article explores how three different analytical approaches to texts may work together to a certain extent in a critical approach to journalistic representation, in this case of the “non-western” world. Focusing on short news items dealing with the nationalist uprising in Egypt in 1919, the texts are analysed using critical discourse analysis, but also inspired by Said’s Orientalism critique, Bourdieu’s field theory including the notion of journalism as an autonomous field, albeit with a weak autonomy.

The Empire and the Egyptians

Nordicom Review

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A Multi-disciplinary Approach to Global Journalism Studies

This article explores how three different analytical approaches to texts may work together to a certain extent in a critical approach to journalistic...

The Empire and the Egyptians

Publié en ligne: 14 févr. 2017

Pages: 153 - 168

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0236

Mots clés
Bourdieu, discourse analysis, empire, Fairclough, field theory, journalism, orientalism, othering, Said

© by Elisabeth Eide

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

The Empire and the Egyptians

Publié en ligne: 14 févr. 2017

Pages: 153 - 168

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/nor-2017-0236

Mots clésBourdieu, discourse analysis, empire, Fairclough, field theory, journalism, orientalism, othering, Said

© by Elisabeth Eide

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
Bourdieu, discourse analysis, empire, Fairclough, field theory, journalism, orientalism, othering, Said