TY  - BOOK
AU  - Durant,Alan
TI  - Meaning in the Media: Discourse, Controversy and Debate 
SN  - 9780511810848 (ebook)
U1  - 302.23 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Meaning (Psychology)
KW  - Debates and debating
KW  - Discourse analysis
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - 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
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511810848
ER  -