Analysing the news coverage of "pet regret" in the UK through the framework of Nonviolent Communication

Garrisi, Diana 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 Item availability restricted.

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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
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
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:	12 Nov 2024 03:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/163284

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