Essays about: "English Newspapers"

Showing result 41 - 45 of 57 essays containing the words English Newspapers.

  1. 41. News is news : Ethnic minorities in five Namibian newspapers

    University essay from Institutionen för samhällsvetenskaper

    Author : Andreas Heneborn; Erik Melin; [2012]
    Keywords : Ethnic minorities; Development; Media; Namibia; Newspapers; Sub-Saharan Africa; Tribalism;

    Abstract : This Bachelors thesis has been written with the goal to learn how five Namibian newspapers are portraying ethnic minorities. A secondary goal has been to earn knowledge in how Namibian journalists think when writing about ethnic minorities. READ MORE

  3. 42. “A man-hating lesbian feminist”: a study of the collocations of the word feminist

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Josefin Albertsson; [2011-03-29]
    Keywords : feminist; collocation; attitudes; English; newspapers; corpus; Britain;

    Abstract : The use of sexist language reveals a great deal about a society´s attitudes towards women. Studies have previously shown that the English language holds far more negative and pejorative terms for women than for men. READ MORE

  4. 43. "Let Only Your Corpse Come Out of that House" : an Analysis of Contemporary Dowry Discourses in Indian Newspapers

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Mänskliga rättigheter

    Author : Harpreet Singh; [2011]
    Keywords : Human Rights; Dowry; Dowry deaths; Domestic violence; Marriage; Frames; Journalists’ frames; Media content; Dowry suicides; Women; Modernization; India; mänskliga rättigheter; Philosophy and Religion;

    Abstract : The purpose of this essay is to examine the complex social and cultural practice of dowry, and violence related to dowry, in India. The dowry system may at first appear to be an old-fashioned and traditional institution that in face of modernization would slowly fade away. READ MORE

  5. 44. Metaphor in writing : A study on metaphor usage in the online sports sections of two British newspapers

    University essay from Institutionen för språk och litteratur, SOL

    Author : Jens Andersson; [2011]
    Keywords : ;

    Abstract : This study seeks to investigate the use of metaphors in the sports section of two British newspapers; a broadsheet, The Telegraph, and a tabloid, The Mirror, and locate whether there are any differences between them in terms of metaphor usage. To accomplish this, a total number of twenty sports articles written by four different journalists – two from each newspaper – were analyzed for both conventional and novel metaphors. READ MORE

  6. 45. Communicating Georgia : Georgia's information campaign in the 2008 war with Russia

    University essay from Institutionen för journalistik, medier och kommunikation (JMK)

    Author : Artur Jugaste; [2011]
    Keywords : public relations; georgia; information war; strategic communication; south ossetia;

    Abstract : During the 2008 South Ossetia war, Georgia and Russia fought what the English-language media called "a public relations war“. This was an interesting example of modern information warfare where governments allied with public relations agencies battled for symbolic power on the media field. READ MORE