Language and Crime

This book offers a systematic introduction to the linguistic analysis of newspaper reports on crime. The author demonstrates how the linguistic analysis of newspaper texts helps to gain insight into the construction of offenders and victims in those texts and links the findings to criminological frameworks. Tabbert employs Critical Stylistics to explore the description of participants, the presentation of speech as well as actions, states or events, and other linguistic devices employed by journalists to present a particular image of an offender or a victim in the press. This book shows the fruitfulness of an interdisciplinary approach to reveal predominant discourse on crime in society and will be of great interest to researchers in linguistics, criminology and media studies.

Explores how offenders are represented in the media and how a story is constructed around their crimes Bridges the gaps between linguistics and criminology by examining the media landscape in Britain Uses Critical Stylistics to explore all aspects of the presentation of criminals and victims in newspaper press articles

Autorentext
Ulrike Tabbert is a Senior Public Prosecutor (Oberamtsanwältin) at a German prosecution office as well as a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Huddersfield, UK. She holds a PhD in Linguistics from Huddersfield and is the author of Crime and Corpus: The linguistic representation of crime in the press (2015).

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Crime news and what this book is about.- Chapter 2: Critical Stylistics.- Chapter 3: Naming and describing offenders and victims.- Chapter 4: Representing actions, events and states through the predicator.- Chapter 5: Equivalence, opposition, enumeration, prioritising and implied meaning.- Chapter 6: Hypothesising, negation and presenting others' speech.- Chapter 7: Deixis and metaphor.- Chapter 8: Analysing a newspaper report on crime by means of Critical Stylistics.