The hidden power of grammar: a mixed-methods study of media discourses on climate change protests and their effects on audience attitude.

语法的隐藏力量：气候变化抗议媒体话语及其对受众态度影响的混合方法研究。

• 批准号: 2881735
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Birmingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2881735
• 关键词: hidden; power; grammar; mixed; methods

The proposed research will provide insight into the power of the news media to covertly shape public attitudes towards pressing global issues, including the climate crisis as well as activism as a social practice.The climate crisis can be considered one of the biggest issues facing humanity today. Amidst rising climate urgency from scientific bodies, since 2018 the UK has seen a wave of high-profile climate change protests which have gained public and political attention. Now, recent changes to government policy have introduced stricter laws governing UK citizens' right to protest. In light of this, the present research aims to explore how climate protests have been represented in the UK press from 2018 to 2022. Contributing to a growing body of research which combines corpus assisted CDA (critical discourse analysis) and experimental methods (Fuoli & Hart, 2018; Hart, 2018), the proposed research will take a mixed-methods approach in order to investigate whether fine-grained grammatical choices made by the UK press in reporting Climate Change protests can meaningfully influence audience attitudes.The research will begin with a CDA investigation into how the UK press has used subtle grammatical framing strategies to encourage certain interpretations of climate protest events from 2018-2022. Then, through experimental methods the study will verify the claims put forward by this analysis by investigating the effects of these identified grammatical framing strategies on audience evaluations.

拟议的研究将深入了解新闻媒体秘密塑造公众对紧迫全球问题的态度的力量，包括气候危机以及作为社会实践的激进主义。气候危机可以被认为是当今人类面临的最大问题之一。随着科学机构对气候问题的紧迫感日益增强，自 2018 年以来，英国掀起了一波备受瞩目的气候变化抗议浪潮，赢得了公众和政界的关注。现在，最近政府政策的变化引入了更严格的法律来管理英国公民的抗议权。有鉴于此，本研究旨在探索 2018 年至 2022 年英国媒体如何报道气候抗议活动。为越来越多的研究做出贡献，这些研究结合了语料库辅助 CDA（批判性话语分析）和实验方法（Fuoli & Hart） ，2018；Hart，2018），拟议的研究将采用混合方法来调查英国媒体是否做出了细粒度的语法选择报道气候变化抗议活动可以有意义地影响受众的态度。这项研究将从 CDA 的调查开始，调查英国媒体如何使用微妙的语法框架策略来鼓励对 2018 年至 2022 年气候抗议事件的某些解释。然后，通过实验方法，该研究将通过调查这些已确定的语法框架策略对受众评估的影响来验证该分析提出的主张。