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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Abingdon, Oxon; New York :
Routledge ,
c2011
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Table of Contents:
- 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