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Meaning in the Media

Meaning in the Media

Discourse, Controversy and Debate

by Alan Durant
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/03/2010
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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.
ISBN:
9780521136402
9780521136402
Category:
Media studies
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-03-2010
Language:
English
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
266
Dimensions (mm):
227x150x11mm
Weight:
0.43kg
Alan Durant

Alan Durant is a prolific author of picture books and novels for children of all ages, including Dear Mermaid (9781844280643), Dear Tooth Fairy (9780744588583) and Dear Father Christmas (9780744583403); his football stories were featured in the BBC series English Express, winner of a Children's BAFTA Award.

Alan is also a National Reading Campaign Reading Champion and a frequent visitor to schools, libraries and festivals around the UK and abroad. He lives in Brighton, Sussex.

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