Analysing the News Coverage of “Pet Regret” in the UK Through the Framework of Nonviolent Communication

IF 2.2 2区文学 Q2 COMMUNICATION

Journalism Practice Pub Date : 2023-09-28 DOI:10.1080/17512786.2023.2260784

Diana Garrisi

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Abstract

ABSTRACTDrawing on the tenets of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), this paper presents a discourse analysis of UK news coverage regarding the phenomenon commonly referred to as “pet regret”. This is an informal expression coined by mainstream media to indicate feelings of remorse experienced by individuals who acquired a companion animal during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequently found themselves questioning their decision, leading some to consider relinquish or leaving without care their pet. This paper will discuss examples from newspapers that used a moralistic framework to depict pet owners by resorting to forms of value judgments woven into rhetorical and syntactic structures. The tone of these judgments reinforces a type of representation grounded on binary thinking, potentially encouraging classifications of people based on reductive notions of right and wrong.KEYWORDS: Pet regretnonviolent communicationcondensation symbolBritish pressCOVID-19value judgement AcknowledgementThe author would like to thank the editors and anonymous reviewers for their detailed and constructive feedback.Disclosure StatementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

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非暴力传播框架下英国“宠物遗憾”新闻报道分析

摘要本文借鉴非暴力传播的原则，对英国新闻报道中通常被称为“宠物后悔”的现象进行了话语分析。这是一个由主流媒体创造的非正式表达，指的是在COVID-19大流行期间获得伴侣动物的个人所经历的悔恨情绪，随后发现自己质疑自己的决定，导致一些人考虑放弃或不顾自己的宠物而离开。本文将讨论报纸上的例子，这些例子使用道德框架来描述宠物主人，通过诉诸于编织成修辞和句法结构的价值判断形式。这些判断的语气强化了一种基于二元思维的表征，潜在地鼓励了基于对与错的简化概念对人进行分类。关键词:宠物遗憾非暴力沟通凝聚符号英国出版社scovid -19价值判断感谢编辑和匿名审稿人提供的详细而有建设性的反馈。披露声明作者未报告潜在的利益冲突。

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Journalism Practice COMMUNICATION-

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111

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