The structure of discourse in weekly magazine reports on the Fukushima nuclear disaster : their critical views of television and newspapers

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  • 福島原発事故における週刊誌報道の言説構造 : テレビ・新聞への批判の視点
  • フクシマ ゲンパツ ジコ ニオケル シュウカンシ ホウドウ ノ ゲンセツ コウゾウ : テレビ シンブン エノ ヒハン ノ シテン
  • 福島原発事故における週刊誌報道の言説構造 : テレビ新聞への批判の視点

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Abstract

This study aims to reveal how discourse was created in weekly magazine reports on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Disaster. Analytical methods based in the field of pragmatics, including Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), were used to study articles published in March 2011 in three of Japan's biggest weekly magazines: Shukan Bunshun, Shukan Shincho, and Shukan Gendai. By examining how these magazines viewed other forms of media and made their reports, this study explains how weekly magazines attempt to create new "realities" about the nuclear disaster, the methods they employ in trying to influence readers, how they view other forms of media, and what type of medium these weekly magazines are trying to present themselves as in the first place.

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  • 評論・社会科学

    評論・社会科学 (121), 55-79, 2017-05-31

    The Association of Social Studies, Doshisha University

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