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14 - Condemning the Condemners

The Portrayal of Regulators in UK News about Corporate Crime

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2023

By
Ilse A. Ras
Edited by
John Douthwaite  and
Ulrike Tabbert
John Douthwaite
Affiliation:
Università degli Studi di Genova
Ulrike Tabbert
Affiliation:
University of Huddersfield
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Summary

Ras looks at how British and American tax authorities (FSA, SEC) are portrayed in newspaper reports on corporate tax fraud. She combines CDA with corpus linguistics and analyses naming choices and transitivity as well as conceptual metaphors in a large dataset (corpus). Her objective is to demonstrate how power is wielded (in this case by large corporations) to influence the workings of the legal system.

Keywords

CDAcorpus linguisticstax fraudFSASECcorporate crime
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The Linguistics of Crime , pp. 301 - 329
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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