Contents

pp v-vi

Notes on Contributors

pp vii-viii

Introduction

pp 1-18

Part I - Language

pp 19-20

1 - Representations of the Baltimore Riots of July 1812: Political Spin in the Early American Republic

pp 21-37

2 - Moral Storytelling during the 2011 England Riots: Mythology, Metaphor and Ideology

pp 38-56

3 - Why Do They Protest?: The Discursive Construction of ‘Motive’ in Relation to the Chilean Student Movement in the National Alternative Press (2011–13)

pp 57-74

4 - Crying Children and Bleeding Pensioners against Rambo's Troop: Perspectivisation in German Newspaper Reports on Stuttgart 21 Protests

pp 75-92

5 - Taking a Stance through the Voice of ‘Others’: Attribution in News Coverage of a Public Sector Workers’ Strike in Two Botswana Newspapers

pp 93-108

6 - Media ‘Militant’ Tendencies: How Strike Action in the News Press Is Discursively Constructed as Inherently Violent

pp 109-130

Part II - Multimodality

pp 131-132

7 - Metaphor and the (1984–5) Miners’ Strike: A Multimodal Analysis

pp 133-153

8 - Strategic Manoeuvring in Arab Spring Political Cartoons

pp 154-174

9 - Social Media Activism by Favela Youth in Rio de Janeiro

pp 175-193

10 - Rioting and Disorderly Behaviour as Political Media Practice: Body Postures on the Streets of L.A. during the Riots of 1992

pp 194-210

Index

pp 211-212