Closely examining how the news media reports economic and financial matters, this book equips students with solid methodological skills for reading and interpreting the news alongside a toolkit for best practice as an economic journalist. How to Read Economic News combines theory and practice to explore the discourse surrounding economics in the mass media and how this specialised form of reporting can be improved. Beginning by introducing major concepts such as financialised economic reporting, media amnesia and loss of trust, the book goes on to help students to interpret, understand and analyse existing news discourse and to identify subtle biases in news reports stemming from hegemonic belief systems. The final section puts this analytical knowledge into practice, providing students with methods for the critical production of news and covering such skills as identifying newsworthiness, story sourcing, achieving clarity, and using complex datasets in news stories. This is a key text for students and academics in the fields of financial journalism and critical discourse analysis who wish to approach the subject with a critical eye.

This book explores the Irish Traveller community through an ethnographic and folk linguistic lens. It sheds new light on Irish Traveller language, commonly referred to as Gammon or Cant, an integral part of the community's cultural heritage that has long been viewed as a form of secret code. The author addresses Travellers' metalinguistic and ideological reflections on their language use, providing deep insights into the culture and values of community members, and into their perceived social reality in wider society. In doing so, she demonstrates that its interrelationship with other cultural elements means that the language is in a constant flux, and by analysing speakers' experiences of language in action, provides a dynamic view of language use. The book takes the reader on a journey through oral history, language naming practices, ideologies of languageness and structure, descriptions of language use and contexts, negotiations of the 'authentic' Cant, and Cant as 'identity'. Based on a two-year ethnographic fieldwork project in a Traveller Training Centre in the West of Ireland, this book will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language in society, language ideology, folk linguistics, minority communities and languages, and cultural and linguistic anthropology.

The issue of socio-economic inequality has become an increasingly important question for journalism and the academy. The 2008 economic crisis and the years of austerity which followed exasperated class and regional division and as an even greater economic shock emerges from the aftermath of the Covid 19 pandemic, the role of journalism and the wider media in the production and reproduction of inequality assumes greater importance. This edited collection includes eight chapters examining instances of where inequality is examined in the media, for example coverage of Thomas Piketty, precarity, corporate tax rates and race-, class- and gender-related issues, in order to address the following questions: Does journalism treat the issue of inequality in a satisfactory fashion? Does journalism challenge powerful interests, or does journalism play an ideological role in the reproduction of structures of inequality itself? How do increasingly poor working conditions of journalists impact on the coverage of inequality? The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Critical Discourse Studies journal.

Closely examining how the news media reports economic and financial matters, this book equips students with solid methodological skills for reading and interpreting the news alongside a toolkit for best practice as an economic journalist. How to Read Economic News combines theory and practice to explore the discourse surrounding economics in the mass media and how this specialised form of reporting can be improved. Beginning by introducing major concepts such as financialised economic reporting, media amnesia and loss of trust, the book goes on to help students to interpret, understand and analyse existing news discourse and to identify subtle biases in news reports stemming from hegemonic belief systems. The final section puts this analytical knowledge into practice, providing students with methods for the critical production of news and covering such skills as identifying newsworthiness, story sourcing, achieving clarity, and using complex datasets in news stories. This is a key text for students and academics in the fields of financial journalism and critical discourse analysis who wish to approach the subject with a critical eye.

The issue of socio-economic inequality has become an increasingly important question for journalism and the academy. The 2008 economic crisis and the years of austerity which followed exasperated class and regional division and as an even greater economic shock emerges from the aftermath of the Covid 19 pandemic, the role of journalism and the wider media in the production and reproduction of inequality assumes greater importance. This edited collection includes eight chapters examining instances of where inequality is examined in the media, for example coverage of Thomas Piketty, precarity, corporate tax rates and race-, class- and gender-related issues, in order to address the following questions: Does journalism treat the issue of inequality in a satisfactory fashion? Does journalism challenge powerful interests, or does journalism play an ideological role in the reproduction of structures of inequality itself? How do increasingly poor working conditions of journalists impact on the coverage of inequality? The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Critical Discourse Studies journal.

This book explores the Irish Traveller community through an ethnographic and folk linguistic lens. It sheds new light on Irish Traveller language, commonly referred to as Gammon or Cant, an integral part of the community's cultural heritage that has long been viewed as a form of secret code. The author addresses Travellers' metalinguistic and ideological reflections on their language use, providing deep insights into the culture and values of community members, and into their perceived social reality in wider society. In doing so, she demonstrates that its interrelationship with other cultural elements means that the language is in a constant flux, and by analysing speakers' experiences of language in action, provides a dynamic view of language use. The book takes the reader on a journey through oral history, language naming practices, ideologies of languageness and structure, descriptions of language use and contexts, negotiations of the 'authentic' Cant, and Cant as 'identity'. Based on a two-year ethnographic fieldwork project in a Traveller Training Centre in the West of Ireland, this book will appeal to students and scholars of sociolinguistics, language in society, language ideology, folk linguistics, minority communities and languages, and cultural and linguistic anthropology.

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2006 im Fachbereich Geschichte Europa - and. Lander - Neueste Geschichte, Europaische Einigung, Note: 2,0, Universitat Regensburg (Geschichte), Veranstaltung: Das Konigreich Bayern 1806-1871, 13 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Clemens Wenzel Lothar Metternich war einer der grossten Staatsmanner Europas. Er schaffte es, in der Hochzeit seiner Karriere, die meisten Europaischen Staaten unter seiner Kontrolle zu haben oder zumindest in ihren Handlungen zu beeinflussen. In einem ersten Abschnitt dreht es sich um Metternichs Leben und Wirken und um die Erklarung des Begriffes System Metternichs zur Erhaltung der Ruhe und Ordnung" . Daraufhin wird in die bayerische Thematik eingestiegen und die Zeit von vor der Konstitution von 1818 bis zum letzten vorrevolutionaren Landtag in Bezug auf Metternichs Einfluss in Bayern beleuchten und mit Quellen unterlegt. Die Arbeit schliesst ab mit einer Bewertung der Zeit Ludwigs und Metternichs, sowie dessen System der Ruhe und Ordnun

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2008 im Fachbereich Germanistik - Neuere Deutsche Literatur, Note: 1,3, Universitat Regensburg (Germanistik), 12 Quellen im Literaturverzeichnis, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Das 18. Jahrhundert war charakteristisch fur einen gesellschaftlichen Umbruch und die Emanzipation des Burgertums, die an den Grundsteinen der Standeordnung ruttelte. In dieser Zeit konnte sich auch das uberlieferte strenge Regelsystem der Dramentheorie nicht mehr unverandert halten. Lenz war einer der grossen Schriftsteller, die dieses System in Frage stellten. Er wird in seiner Zeit unterschiedlich eingeschatzt: Einerseits in seinem kunstlerischen Schaffen verachtet, da seine Werke keine gerade tragische oder komische Linie aufweisen, andererseits fur eben diese Tatsache als Schopfer der realistischen burgerlichen Tragodie gelobt, fur das unter anderen Werken Der Hofmeister" so beruhmt wurde. Die Bezeichnung des Hofmeisters" als burgerliche Tragodie" birgt jedoch schon die erste Schwierigkeit. Von Lenz selbst wurde das Werk zunachst als Komodie" bezeichnet. In weiteren Stellungnahmen schwankte er jedoch zwischen Komodie," Lust- und Trauerspiel," Trauerspiel" und Raritatskasten." Auch Kritiker und Leser haben von jeher unterschiedliche Meinungen zu Gattung des Werkes gehabt: Burgerliches Trauerspiel," Tragikomodie," Lustspiel," etc. Einig waren sich jedoch viele zeitgenossische und spatere Autoren daruber, dass das Werk der Gattung des Dramas neue Dimensionen eroffnete und Lenz einen neuen Dramentypus geschaffen habe. Das Werk Der Hofmeister oder die Vorteile der Privaterziehung" ist ein ironisches gesellschaftskritisches Drama, in dem Lenz auch die eigenen biographischen Erfahrungen einfliessen liess. Dieser war selbst eine zeitlang Hofmeister gewesen, ein Lebensabschnitt, der ihn im negativen Sinne stark gepragt hatte. In diesen Ausfuhrungen wird auf das Problem der Gattungsbezeichnung fur dieses Werk eingegangen und beleuchtet, inwiefern die Schw