| Media Discourse Contributor(s): Fairclough, Norman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0340588896 ISBN-13: 9780340588895 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $57.37 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1995 Annotation: The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. Norman Fairclough applies to media language his "critical discourse analysis" framework which he developed in Language and Power and Discourse and Social Life. Drawing on examples from TV, radio, and the press, he focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes of social and cultural change. In particular he explores the tensions between public and private in the media and the tensions between information and entertainment. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Media Studies - Performing Arts | Film - General |
| Dewey: 302.23 |
| LCCN: 95017679 |
| Series: Hodder Arnold Publication |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.14" W x 9.13" (0.76 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. Norman Fairclough applies to media language his critical discourse analysis framework which he developed in Language and Power and Discourse and Social Life. Drawing on examples from TV, radio, and the press, he focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes of social and cultural change. In particular he explores the tensions between public and private in the media and the tensions between information and entertainment. |