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@article{ART001904126},
author={Noh, Bokyung and Ban Hyun},
title={Deciphering Ideological Representations in Editorials of Two U.S. Quality Newspapers},
journal={The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea},
issn={1226-4822},
year={2014},
volume={22},
number={2},
pages={23-44}

TY - JOUR
AU - Noh, Bokyung
AU - Ban Hyun
TI - Deciphering Ideological Representations in Editorials of Two U.S. Quality Newspapers
JO - The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea
PY - 2014
VL - 22
IS - 2
PB - The Sociolinguistic Society Of Korea
SP - 23
EP - 44
SN - 1226-4822
AB - The United States federal government entered a shutdown due to the ideological dispute between Democrats and Republicans from October 1 through 16, 2013. This paper attempts to elucidate ideological representations through a thorough analysis of editorials in two elite newspapers, the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. In particular, we examined how an in-group and an out-group were formed, and how the formation was reinforced in terms of in-group homogeneity and out-group exclusion, by means of linguistic features such as naming choices, the so-called editorial we, and lexical selections, following van Dijk's (1998) ideological square. The results are as follows: (i) the Wall Street Journal emphasized “their” bad properties more aggressively than the New York Times, while the New York Times emphasized both “their” bad qualities and “our” good qualities in a more moderate way than the Wall Street Journal; (ii) the two strategies of emphasis and mitigation enabled both newspapers to reinforce in-group homogeneity and out-group exclusion: The Wall Street Journal openly framed Republicans as the in-group and Democrats as the out-group, whereas the New York Times posited Americans and Democrats as the in-group, in relation to Republicans.
KW - ideological square;newspaper editorials;the 2013 government shutdown;naming choice;lexical selection
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Noh, Bokyung and Ban Hyun. (2014). Deciphering Ideological Representations in Editorials of Two U.S. Quality Newspapers. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, 22(2), 23-44.

Noh, Bokyung and Ban Hyun. 2014, "Deciphering Ideological Representations in Editorials of Two U.S. Quality Newspapers", The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, vol.22, no.2 pp.23-44.

Noh, Bokyung, Ban Hyun "Deciphering Ideological Representations in Editorials of Two U.S. Quality Newspapers" The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 22.2 pp.23-44 (2014) : 23.

Noh, Bokyung, Ban Hyun. Deciphering Ideological Representations in Editorials of Two U.S. Quality Newspapers. 2014; 22(2), 23-44.

Noh, Bokyung and Ban Hyun. "Deciphering Ideological Representations in Editorials of Two U.S. Quality Newspapers" The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 22, no.2 (2014) : 23-44.

Noh, Bokyung; Ban Hyun. Deciphering Ideological Representations in Editorials of Two U.S. Quality Newspapers. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea, 22(2), 23-44.

Noh, Bokyung; Ban Hyun. Deciphering Ideological Representations in Editorials of Two U.S. Quality Newspapers. The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea. 2014; 22(2) 23-44.

Noh, Bokyung, Ban Hyun. Deciphering Ideological Representations in Editorials of Two U.S. Quality Newspapers. 2014; 22(2), 23-44.

Noh, Bokyung and Ban Hyun. "Deciphering Ideological Representations in Editorials of Two U.S. Quality Newspapers" The Sociolinguistic Journal of Korea 22, no.2 (2014) : 23-44.