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Ritchie, L. David and Cameron, Lynne
(2014).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/10926488.2014.924303
Abstract
The concept of framing has been widely used to help understand how aspects of messages can shape people’s expectations and consequently influence the outcomes of communicative interactions. In this study we examine transcripts of a contentious and ultimately unsuccessful public meeting between police officials and members of the African American community following the fatal shooting of a young African American woman by police officers. We show how contradictory framing between public officials and members of the community as well as within each group may have contributed to unintended and asymmetrical ironies, and ultimately to the failure of the meeting to achieve the objectives of either group. We suggest steps that might lead to better outcomes in similar situations in the future.
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- Item ORO ID
- 40648
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1532-7868
- Project Funding Details
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Funded Project Name Project ID Funding Body Living with Uncertainty: Metaphor and the Dynamics of Empathy in Discourse ES/G033978/1 ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Not Set RES/071270039 ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) - Keywords
- irony; framing; frame conflict; metaphor; multiple audiences; police-community relations
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Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics > English Language & Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) > Languages and Applied Linguistics
Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies (WELS) - Copyright Holders
- © 2014 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- Depositing User
- Lynne Cameron