Conflicting Truths in Academic and Journalistic Writing

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• Publisher: Cuvillier Verlag
• Year: 2020
• Print ISBN: 9783736972070
• eBook ISBN: 9783736962071
• Edition: 1

The present volume draws on the experience of the Summer School held in August 2019 in Ohrid, where graduate students and experienced scholars met from Germany, Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, and Croatia. All contributions discuss original empirical research on texts that construe conflicting truths in the idest sense, either from academic or from journalistic writing, mainly from a South Eastern European perspective. The contributions can also serve as a general model for open and critical international and intercultural academic discourse in joint teaching, research and publishing.

Table of contents

• Contents
• Conflicting Truths in Academic and Journalistic Writing: Forms, Functions and Intentions
• Conflicting Truths in the Comment Sections of Serbian News Websites: One Click is All It Takes
• Framing the News Media in Germany? Background and Linguistic Analyses of a Manual for the General Public Broadcasting Services in Germany (ARD)
• Attacks by the Hamas Resistance Movement or Terrorist Movement, Israeli Defence Forces or Occupation Forces? A Corpus-Based Comparison of the Framing of the Israeli-Palestine Conflict in American, Arab-Speaking, Israeli and Palestinian Online Journals
• “It must be true – the President says it.” Using Epistemic Modals to Construct Truths in European Political Discourse
• (Non)Lingual Elements as Markers of Truth in the Serbian Media: The Case of the “1 of 5 Million” Protest
• Analysing the Truths about Brexit Represented on UK, EU and USA NewsWebsites: The Case of Modal Assessments
• Semantic and Pragmatic Truth Implications of Concession in Single- and Double-Blind Open Peer Reviews
• The Truths about Healthy Diets: Popular Views, Preschool Teachers’ Beliefs and Teaching in Serbia
• The Language of Media Framing: The Case of North Macedonia’s Ex-Prime Minister
• Conflicting Truths in the Coverage of the “1 of 5 Million” Protests in Serbia: A Discourse Analysis
• Conflicting Truths in a Literary Text: A Case Study of Nabokov’s Lolita
• Statistics Can Lie! – Using Descriptive Statistics in Academic Writing to Shape Reader’s Interpretations
• Using Topic Modeling to Analyse Political Speeches
• Conflicting Truths in the English Language Curriculum: A Synopsis of Professional and Preservice Teachers’ Self-Efficacy Concerns
• Teaching Lexical Patterns in English and Macedonian Media Discourse: Confronting Issues of Conflicting Truths