Maija Stenvall
List of John Benjamins publications in which Maija Stenvall is involved.
Articles
2017 Chapter 12. Narrative vs. “objective” style: Notes on the style of news (agency) reports on violence in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Diachronic Developments in English News Discourse, Palander-Collin, Minna, Maura Ratia and Irma Taavitsainen (eds.), pp. 219–240 | Chapter
The paper examines stylistic changes in newspaper articles on violence between 1859 and 1910. I have looked both at news narratives, and at signs of the new, “objective” writing style. Whenever possible, I have chosen stories attributed to AP (the Associated Press) and Reuters news agencies, since… read more
2007 “Fear of terror attack persists”: Constructing fear in reports on terrorism by international news agencies Discourse, War and Terrorism, Hodges, Adam and Chad Nilep (eds.), pp. 205–222 | Chapter
2003 An actor or an undefined threat? The role of "terrorist" in the discourse of international news agencies Studying Identity: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges, pp. 361–404 | Miscellaneous
The paper studies the use of the word terrorist in the dispatches of two major international news agencies, AP and Reuters. It can be assumed that the attacks on September 11, 2001, have changed the role of terrorist and affected the meaning of the word. While terrorists have been traditionally… read more