| Project/Area Number |
22K01901
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Multi-year Fund |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Review Section |
Basic Section 08010:Sociology-related
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| Research Institution | Nagoya University |
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Principal Investigator |
E・T・W Haig 名古屋大学, 人文学研究科, 教授 (80377770)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2022-04-01 – 2025-03-31
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| Project Status |
Granted (Fiscal Year 2023)
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| Budget Amount *help |
¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2024: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2023: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2022: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
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| Keywords | crime / youth / media / discourse / news / Britain / CDA / SFL / radio / youth crime / media discourse / United Kingdom |
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| Outline of Research at the Start |
This research concerns the problem of youth crime and the ideological nature of the language used by the news media when reporting on it. Specifically, it examines a particular incident in which a young boy in Liverpool in England was shot by a teenage gang member and how that incident was reported by the BBC and other UK news media.
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| Outline of Annual Research Achievements |
During this, the second year of this three-year project, I have focused on the following three activities.
1. Transcribing samples of the radio news recordings concerning youth crime. This work is particularly time-consuming but I am continuing to make good progress with it.
2. Analysing the transcripts according to the theory of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and the methodology of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL). The theoretical and methodological aspects of this study are providing me with many insights into these two key fields and I am hoping to make a contribution to the theory and methodology of both.
3. The most significant development during this year has been my decision to expand the scope of the project to consider the media reporting of youth crime from a more historical perspective. In particular, I have been extending the work of Pearson (1983) by pushing back the analysis to the 17th century. I published one paper on this topic.
Very unfortunately, my progress has been considerably hampered by my involvement in a serious accident in February 2024 which resulted in multiple broken bones and other physical injuries. This led to a short period of hospitalization and a prolonged period of rehabilitation.
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| Current Status of Research Progress |
Current Status of Research Progress
3: Progress in research has been slightly delayed.
Reason
As noted above, although I was able to make steady progress on this projectin terms of transcribing and analysing the radio news recordings during the earlier part of the year, more recently my work has been severely disrupted due to serious injuries that I sustained as the result of an accident. During the prolonged period of hospitalization and recuperation, however, I had the opportunity to think and read more widely about the topic of the media coverage of youth crime and that led me to explore the possibility of expanding this research to include a more historical dimension. As a result of that, I was able to publish one paper on that topic. Now, while continuing with the original aims of the study, I am continuing to develop this new and, I believe, valuable aspect of this research.
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| Strategy for Future Research Activity |
During the coming year, I intend to continue with the transcription and analysis of the radio news recordings. However, in light of the new aspect of the topic that I have been exploring recently, namely the historical dimension, I am hoping to devote a considerable amount of time and effort into further incorporating that topic into my overall research project. I have already identified a large number of relevant materials, including many historical media texts contained within the Thomason Tracts collection held by the British Library but to which I have online access via Nagoya University's library and I shall be seeing to analyse these according the the principles of CDA and the methodology of SFL.
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