Bc. Petr Hans

Bachelor's thesis

A Linguistic Analysis of Fox News' Reporting on COVID Measures

A Linguistic Analysis of Fox News' Reporting on COVID Measures
Abstract:
Tato bakalářská práce zkoumá způsob, jakým americký zpravodajský kanál Fox News informuje o opatřeních proti nemoci COVID-19 platných v USA během pandemie koronaviru v letech 2020 a 2021, mezi něž patří například očkování a roušky. Pro účely této práce byl zkompilován korpus s přepisy všech dílů ranního pořadu Fox and Friends, které byly odvysílány od března roku 2020 do prosince roku 2021. Analyzovány …more
Abstract:
This study examines the way The Fox News Channel was reporting on the measures against the disease COVID-19 imposed in the USA during the coronavirus pandemic in the years 2020 and 2021, such as the vaccines and masks. A corpus with the transcripts of all episodes of the morning show Fox and Friends aired between March 2020 and December 2021 has been compiled as a subject for analysis, together with …more
 
 
Language used: English
Date on which the thesis was submitted / produced: 24. 5. 2022

Thesis defence

  • Date of defence: 9. 6. 2022
  • Supervisor: Mgr. Peter Docherty
  • Reader: Mgr. Jana Pelclová, Ph.D.

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Masaryk University

Faculty of Arts

Bachelor programme / field:
English Language and Literature / English Language and Literature