Garrisi, Diana  ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5438-9427
2024.
Analysing the news coverage of "pet regret" in the UK through the framework of Nonviolent Communication.
Journalism Practice
18
(2)
, pp. 433-451.
10.1080/17512786.2023.2260784
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Abstract
Drawing on the tenets of Nonviolent Communication (NVC), this paper presents a discourse analysis of UK news coverage regarding the phenomenon commonly referred to as “pet regret”. This is an informal expression coined by mainstream media to indicate feelings of remorse experienced by individuals who acquired a companion animal during the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequently found themselves questioning their decision, leading some to consider relinquish or leaving without care their pet. This paper will discuss examples from newspapers that used a moralistic framework to depict pet owners by resorting to forms of value judgments woven into rhetorical and syntactic structures. The tone of these judgments reinforces a type of representation grounded on binary thinking, potentially encouraging classifications of people based on reductive notions of right and wrong.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Schools: | Schools > Journalism, Media and Culture |
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis Group |
| ISSN: | 1751-2786 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 18 October 2023 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 14 September 2023 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jul 2025 01:45 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/163284 |
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