| Meaning in the Media: Discourse, Controversy and Debate Contributor(s): Durant, Alan (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521199581 ISBN-13: 9780521199582 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $62.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Semantics |
| Dewey: 302.23 |
| LCCN: 2010278454 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9" (1.20 lbs) 268 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Meaning in the Media addresses the issue of how we should respond to competing claims about meaning put forward in confrontations between people or organisations in highly charged circumstances such as bitter public controversies and expensive legal disputes. Alan Durant draws attention to the pervasiveness and significance of such meaning-related disputes in the media, investigating how their 'meaning' dimension is best described and explained. Through his analysis of deception, distortion, bias, false advertising, offensiveness and other kinds of communicative behaviour that trigger interpretive disputes, Durant shows that we can understand both meaning and media better if we focus in new ways on moments in discourse when the apparently continuous flow of understanding and agreement breaks down. This lively and contemporary volume will be invaluable to students and teachers of linguistics, media studies, journalism and law. |
Contributor Bio(s): Durant, Alan: - Alan Durant is Professor of Communication at Middlesex University Business School, London. His previous publications include How to Write Essays and Dissertations: A Guide for English Literature Students (2nd edition, 2005) and Ways of Reading (3rd edition, 2007). He was also co-editor of The Linguistics of Writing: Arguments Between Language and Literature (1987). |