Meaning in the Media

DURANT,A

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Author
DURANT,A
Publish Date
04/01/2010
Book Type
paperback
Publisher Name
CAMBRUP
Subtitle
Discourse, Controversy and Debate
Number of Pages
266
ISBN-10
0521136407
ISBN-13
9780521136402
citemno
132543
Edition
1
SKU
9780521136402

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.