Shared ethnic mental models yield divergent discourse across news contexts

Evidence

Note though that what people say and mean in discourse is not only a direct function of their ethnic beliefs, but also a function of context, such as the setting, genre, speakers/ writers, the audience, and so on. Thus news on ethnic affairs in serious broadsheets and in tabloids is very different for those contextual reasons, even if the journalists’ underlying mental models about the ethnic events would be roughly the same. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1100

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the discourse-context distinction: same underlying cognition does not predict surface expression; context (genre, audience) reshapes style.
• XREF: connects to: Racist discourse adapts to context so similar prejudices get varying formulations — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1071; Racist discourse varies by context of production, not only by underlying beliefs — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1071

Broader Connections

• Racist discourse adapts to context so similar prejudices get varying formulations #expands (0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1071
• Racist discourse varies by context of production, not only by underlying beliefs #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1071