Many Stories, Multiple Meanings: Narrative in the O.J. Simpson Case as a Cultural Discourse Event

• Autores: Robin Lakoff
• Localización: Links & letters, ISSN 1133-7397, Nº 3, 1996, págs. 49-60
• Idioma: inglés
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  • America's continuing obsession with the O.J. Simpson case can be explained as a defensive strategy of repetitive narration, to avoid confronting the difficult issues the case raised.

    These narratives forrn a series of concentric circles, from the facts of the cases thernselves to the meta-analysis of the media. This paper analyzes these rnultiple levels and their interpenetrations as a way of examining the mutual influence of culture and discourse upon each other.