'Rising Number of Homeless Is the Legacy of Tory Failure': Discoursal Changes and Transitivity Patterns in the Representation of Homelessness in "The Guardian" and "Daily Mail' from 2000 to 2018

Autor/inn/en	Gómez-Jiménez, Eva M.; Bartley, Leanne Victoria
Titel	'Rising Number of Homeless Is the Legacy of Tory Failure': Discoursal Changes and Transitivity Patterns in the Representation of Homelessness in "The Guardian" and "Daily Mail' from 2000 to 2018
Quelle	In: Applied Linguistics, 44 (2023) 4, S.771-790 (20 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Bartley, Leanne Victoria)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0142-6001
DOI	10.1093/applin/amac079
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Homeless People; Newspapers; News Reporting; News Writing; Language Usage; Discourse Analysis; Change; Time Perspective; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Homeless person; Homeless persons; Obdachloser; Newspaper; Zeitung; News report; Reportage; Sprachgebrauch; Diskursanalyse; Wandel; Zeitbezug; Großbritannien
Abstract	Experts in different fields have claimed that the UK has experienced a process of growing economic inequality since the 1970s. Following Fairclough's dialectal-relational approach, this paper presents a detailed, systematic analysis of the representation of homeless people and homelessness in "The Guardian" and "Daily Mail" from 2000 to 2018, in order to explore how these have been discursively represented over time. Therefore, our study addresses two specific research questions: How have homelessness and homeless people been represented in the UK press? Are there any discoursal changes in representation with the passing of time? The analysis, which has employed mostly qualitative but also quantitative (statistical) methods drawing on corpus-assisted discourse analysis, is informed by the theory of TRANSITIVITY within Systemic Functional Linguistics. Results indicate that, within an overall negative representation of homeless people and homelessness in this period, there have been some significant discoursal changes over time. As such, this paper contributes to critical discourse studies and transitivity research on a relevant social problem, that of growing economic inequality in the UK. (As Provided).
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