Whose Satan? U.S. mainstream media depictions of The Satanic Temple

IF 2.4 1区 文学 Q1 COMMUNICATION Discourse & Society Pub Date : 2022-12-27 DOI:10.1177/09579265221145094
R. Escamilla
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Based on a corpus of 40 U.S. news articles and transcribed news videos, I bring together techniques from Critical Discourse Analysis with concepts from cognitive linguistics in analyzing mainstream portrayals of The Satanic Temple (TST), a newer, non-supernaturalist religion. I probe quotation, lexis, and metaphor, and interrogate patterns through the lenses of framing, radial category structure, and Lakoff’s Idealized Cognitive Models. I draw form-based parallels between mainstream U.S media portrayals of TST and accounts from the CDA literature of othering portrayals of other marginalized groups, in the U.S. and elsewhere. I submit that many accounts of TST are sensationalist, and propose reclamation as a useful lens for understanding the contemporary Satanist identity. I suggest that research on news values, particularly Bednarek and Caple’s concept of Negativity, is a useful avenue for further research.
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谁的撒旦?美国主流媒体对撒旦圣殿的描述
基于40篇美国新闻文章和转录的新闻视频的语料库,我将批判性话语分析的技术与认知语言学的概念结合起来,分析撒旦圣殿(TST)的主流描述,这是一种更新的非超自然宗教。我通过框架、径向范畴结构和拉科夫的理想化认知模型来探究引文、词汇和隐喻,并询问模式。我将美国主流媒体对TST的描述与CDA文献中对美国和其他地方其他边缘化群体的描述进行了形式上的比较。我认为,许多关于TST的描述都是耸人听闻的,并建议将开垦作为理解当代撒旦主义者身份的有用镜头。我认为,研究新闻价值,特别是贝德纳雷克和卡普尔的消极性概念,是进一步研究的有用途径。
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期刊介绍: Discourse & Society is a multidisciplinary peer-reviewed journal whose major aim is to publish outstanding research at the boundaries of discourse analysis and the social sciences. It focuses on explicit theory formation and analysis of the relationships between the structures of text, talk, language use, verbal interaction or communication, on the one hand, and societal, political or cultural micro- and macrostructures and cognitive social representations, on the other hand. That is, D&S studies society through discourse and discourse through an analysis of its socio-political and cultural functions or implications. Its contributions are based on advanced theory formation and methodologies of several disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.
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