Indigenous Identity in Print: Representations of the Sami in News Discourse
This article examines news representations of the indigenous Sami people in the Finnish news discourse and the role of the representations in the politics of Sami identity. Through critical discourse analysis of Finnish newspaper texts collected from the leading daily Helsingin Sanomat, I analyse th...
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crsagepubl:10.1177/09579265030145003 2024-06-23T07:56:30+00:00 Indigenous Identity in Print: Representations of the Sami in News Discourse Pietikäinen, Sari 2003 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09579265030145003 http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/09579265030145003 en eng SAGE Publications http://journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license Discourse & Society volume 14, issue 5, page 581-609 ISSN 0957-9265 1460-3624 journal-article 2003 crsagepubl https://doi.org/10.1177/09579265030145003 2024-06-11T04:31:42Z This article examines news representations of the indigenous Sami people in the Finnish news discourse and the role of the representations in the politics of Sami identity. Through critical discourse analysis of Finnish newspaper texts collected from the leading daily Helsingin Sanomat, I analyse the representations by examining how the journalists utilized textual and linguistic resources available to them, how journalistic practices limited and enabled choices made and, finally, how the textual choices contributed to the representations. The study suggests that a combination of the minority position of the Sami, journalistic practices and an unawareness of or insensitivity towards the representational power of news media result in polarized ethnic representations that contribute to marginalization of the Sami rather than participation in the public discussion in the news arena. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami SAGE Publications Discourse & Society 14 5 581 609 |
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This article examines news representations of the indigenous Sami people in the Finnish news discourse and the role of the representations in the politics of Sami identity. Through critical discourse analysis of Finnish newspaper texts collected from the leading daily Helsingin Sanomat, I analyse the representations by examining how the journalists utilized textual and linguistic resources available to them, how journalistic practices limited and enabled choices made and, finally, how the textual choices contributed to the representations. The study suggests that a combination of the minority position of the Sami, journalistic practices and an unawareness of or insensitivity towards the representational power of news media result in polarized ethnic representations that contribute to marginalization of the Sami rather than participation in the public discussion in the news arena. |
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Indigenous Identity in Print: Representations of the Sami in News Discourse |
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