| The Discursive Construction of Economic Inequality: Cads Approaches to the British Media Contributor(s): Gomez-Jimenez, Eva M. (Editor), Mahlberg, Michaela (Editor), Toolan, Michael (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1350111287 ISBN-13: 9781350111288 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $158.40 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Historical & Comparative - Business & Economics | Economics - Macroeconomics |
| Dewey: 339.220 |
| LCCN: 2020009659 |
| Series: Corpus and Discourse |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.14 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book analyses diverse public discourses to investigate how wealth inequality has been portrayed in the British media from the time of the Second World War to the present day. Using a variety of corpus-assisted methods of discourse analysis, chapters present an historicized perspective on how the mass media have helped to make sharply increased wealth inequality seem perfectly normal. Print, radio and online media sources are interrogated using methodologies grounded in critical discourse analysis, critical stylistics and corpus linguistics in order to examine the influence of the media on the British electorate, who have passively consented to the emergence of an even less egalitarian Britain. Covering topics such as Second World War propaganda, the 'Change4Life' anti-obesity campaign and newspaper, parliamentary and TV news programme attitudes to poverty and austerity, this bookwill be of value to all those interested in the mass media's contribution to the entrenched inequality in modern Britain. |
Contributor Bio(s): Mahlberg, Michaela: - Michaela Mahlberg is Associate Professor in English Language and Applied Linguistics at the The University of Nottingham, UK.Teubert, Wolfgang: - Wolfgang Teubert is Professor of Corpus Linguistics at the University of Birmingham. |