Indigenous Identity in Print: Representations of the Sami in News Discourse
- UNIVERSITY OF JYVäSKYLÄ, sapapi@cc.jyu.fi
Source
doi: 10.1177/09579265030145003 Discourse Society September 2003 vol. 14 no. 5 581-609
Abstract
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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