Misleading speech report in the media with a special reference to an Australian defamationcase  

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Ikeo, Reiko

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Pragmatics: An Interdiciplinary Journal of Language Studies vol. 44 no. 10 (2012), page 1183--1205.
Topik: Speech presentationinmediadiscourse; Misrepresentation; Misleadingspeechreport; Ambiguity; Expertwitness; Metaphor
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People's speechcanbemisrepresentedinthemediainmanyways,andsuchmisrepresentationisoftendisputedincourt.Asan example ofmisrepresentationofspeech,thispaperexaminesanAustraliancourtcase,inwhichnewspaperarticlesfeaturingaChristmas cruise weredecidedtobemisleadinganddefamatory.Byanalysingthenewsarticles,thetranscriptsofthewitnesses’ testimoniesand the judge'sdecision,thispaperinvestigateshowpeople'sspeechcanbemisrepresentedinnewsreports.Aftersummarisingthe strategies whichtheapplicant(thecruisecompany)andtherespondent(thenewspaper)adoptedincourttodisprove/provetheaccuracy and credibilityofthereportedspeechinthenewsarticlesaboutthecruise,examplesofspeechpresentationinoneofthearticlesare analysed fromalinguisticperspective.Inidentifyingmisrepresentation,thecourtattemptedtoreconstructtheanteriorspeecheventsand negotiate themeaningsofthekeyexpressions,whichappearedinthereportedspeechandwereexpectedtohaveoccurredinthe anterior speech.Thecourtproceedingsshowthattheaccuracyandcredibilityofthereportedspeecharecloselyrelatedtothefactual evidence. Theanalysesofthecourttranscriptsrevealhowthemeaningsofthekeyexpressionsintheoriginalspeecheventscanbe modified throughrecontextualisationofthereportedspeech.Misrepresentationofspeechcanalsobeaproductofaninteractionbetween the textualstructureofmediadiscourseanduntruthfulspeechpresentation

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