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Individual Crimes or a Sociological Phenomenon: A Critical discourse analysis of the 2014 Royal Canadian Mounted Police National Operational Overview on missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Yli-Kauhaluoma, Saara |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Abstract | ed cannot be retrieved (ibid.). For example Fact 160: “Motive refers to the offender's purpose in killing the victim” was deleted as irrelevant. The next rule is CONSTRUCTION, in which propositions are ‘taken together’ “by substituting them, as a joint sequence, by a proposition that denotes a global fact of which the micropropositions denote normal components, conditions, or consequences” (van Dijk 1980: 48). The macroproposition is defined by the joint sequence of propositions and denotes a more or less stereotypical sequence of events, “an episode of which it is conventionally known what properties and facts are usually associated with it” (ibid.). In the construction rule, “a new proposition must be constructed, involving a new predicate to denote the complex event described by the respective propositions of the text” (ibid.). However, at this point our knowledge of the world, meaning our frames, must be taken into consideration, since they determine what is perceived as normal in |
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