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Patterns of Inconsistency. The Coverage of the World Youth Day 2005 in the Flemish Press. |
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TRIOEN Marit |
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Affiliation: Erasmushogeschool Brussel/Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Erasmushogeschool Brussel/Universiteit Antwerpen |
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Keywords: Philosophical Anthropology |
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| Abstract: | This paper investigates the way (catholic) religion and (religious) youth are represented in the different Flemish newspapers. The case of the World Youth Day 2005 delivers a well-defined corpus which is very suitable for an analysis of the discourse on religion, youth and media.
Based on a thorough linguistic analysis of the corpus (drawing on naming analysis and transitivity), we have been able to make a description of the representation that was given of the WYD 2005, of the presence of the pope and of the young participants. It turns out that, although the coverage is on the whole very matter-of-fact, it shows remarkable patterns of inconsistency.
On the one hand, most newspapers enlarge the meaning of the presence of the pope at the WYD to the overall meaning of the event. This overemphasis of the newspapers on the importance of the pope, however, does not fit in with the view and the experiences of the Flemish participants, who also get a lot of attention. Furthermore, in a number of cases, the journalists slip back to presuppositions and stereotypes in their representation of the event. |
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