Analysing media discourses

The continual growth in the significance of mass-mediated communication makes it essential that we are able to reflect upon and critically appreciate the semiotic processes that are involved in their impact upon social and cultural life. This edited collection showcases a range of diverse approaches...

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Main Authors: Burridge, Joseph D. [ (Joseph David)] (Author), Richardson, John E. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon; New York : Routledge , c2011
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245 0 0 |a Analysing media discourses   |c edited by John E. Richardson and Joseph D. Burridge 
260 |a Abingdon, Oxon;   |a New York :   |b Routledge ,   |c c2011 
300 |a vi, 129 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 25 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. Introduction -- 2. Space pilot : an introduction to amateur flight simulation -- 3. Dispreferred actions and other interactional breaches as devices for occasioning audience laughter in television "sitcoms" -- 4. Apprentices to cool capitalism -- 5. "Our England" : discourses of "race" and class in party election leaflets -- 6. The ontology of a self-help book : a paradox of its own existence -- 7. "A very glamorized picture, that" : images of Scottish female herring workers on romance novel covers -- 8. Sex in the sun : racial stereotypes and tabloid news -- 9. "The road to the lesbian nation is not an easy one" : "us" and "them" in Diva magazine -- 10. The dilemma of frugality and consumption in British women's magazines 1940-1955 
520 |a The continual growth in the significance of mass-mediated communication makes it essential that we are able to reflect upon and critically appreciate the semiotic processes that are involved in their impact upon social and cultural life. This edited collection showcases a range of diverse approaches to the analysis of various forms of mediated communications, including varying degrees of attention to their associated textual, discursive and social practices. Individual contributions are devoted to exploring, in analytical depth,... 
650 0 |a Discourse analysis 
650 0 |a Mass media and language 
700 1 |a Burridge, Joseph D. [  |q (Joseph David)] ,   |e author 
700 1 |a Richardson, John E. ,   |e author 
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