This bachelor's thesis is about exploring what rhetorical power a daily newspaper’s front page might possess in affecting a nation’s emotion with regards to the portrayal of news. More specifically, we study how the news about the war in Ukraine presented on the front pages of Swedish newspapers may contribute to the sense of alarm regarding the current situation in Sweden. The material consists of four front covers from two newspapers, two from Svenska Dagbladet and two from Aftonbladet, from the 25th and 26th of February, the first two days after the war broke out. Our theoretical framework aims to propose a nuanced multimodal view on pathosanalysis that is based on the combined insights from linguistics and argumentation studies on the perspective of emotions with our own proposal for a visual addition. The analysis shows how emotions are conveyed through the linguistic structure of the headlines, the choice of images and the overall composition of the front page. We were able to provide potential links from the emotions conveyed in the material to the unease experienced in Sweden during that time even though further research is required for verification. The results also indicate an interrelation between objectivity and the need for sales in newspaper front cover with regards to prior research on magazine covers.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:oru-100272 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Fridholm, Felix, Karlsson Schjölin, Sebastian |
| Publisher | Örebro universitet, Institutionen för humaniora, utbildnings- och samhällsvetenskap |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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