Discursive practices of territorial stigmatization: how newspapers frame violence and crime in a Chicago community

This article deciphers the discursive practices through which Chicago’s two major newspapers, Chicago Tribune and Sun-Times, stigmatize South Shore community on Side. Through a Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), this provides an in-depth linguistic analysis of causation territorial stigmatization press coverage. It demonstrates that newspapers not only hyperbolic naming, but also flows from transitivity newspaper articles itself. By focusing their role in production stigma, broadens our understanding how stigma is produced symbolic defamation denigration spaces. argued normalize naturalize violence crime as commonsense characteristics everyday life Shore, thereby producing image space determined indelibly shaped by crime.