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Meaning in the media : discourse, controversy and debate / Alan Durant

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press [2010], 2010 [Vertrieb: 2012]

(Vertrieb: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press)

1 Online-Ressource (xii, 254 pages)

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)

Erscheint auch als: (Druck-Ausgabe)

978-0-511-81084-8 ( : ebook)

978-0-521-13640-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-19958-2 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-0-521-13640-2 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe)

OCoLC: 873863673     

OCoLC: 949925290 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9780511810848

AP 13750  | ES 155      Ähnliche Literatur

P91

302.23

*Massenmedien ; Berichterstattung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Debates and debating ; Meaning (Psychology) ; Mass media

Mass media ; Meaning (Psychology) ; Debates and debating

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

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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