Meaning in the media: discourse, controversy and debate/
Durant, Alan
Meaning in the media: discourse, controversy and debate/ Alan Durant - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xii, 254 p. ; 23 cm.
Part I. Communication Failure and Interpretive Conflict:
1. From personal disagreement to meaning trouble spot--
2. Signs of trouble--
3. Different kinds of meaning question--
Part II. Making Sense of 'Meaning':
4. Meaning and the appeal to semantics--
5. Interpretive variation--
6. Time-based meaning--
Part III. Verbal Disputes and Approaches to Resolving Them:
7. Meaning as a knockout competition; 8. Standards of interpretation--
Part IV. Analyzing Disputes in Different Fields of Law and Regulation:
9. Defamation: 'reasonably capable of bearing the meaning attributed'--
10. Advertising: 'not only what is said, but what is reasonably implied'--
11. Offensiveness: 'if there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable'--
Part V. Conclusion:
12. Trust in interpretation--
References.
9780521136402
Mass media
Debates and debating
Mass media and language
Discourse analysis
302.23 / DUR/M
Meaning in the media: discourse, controversy and debate/ Alan Durant - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. - xii, 254 p. ; 23 cm.
Part I. Communication Failure and Interpretive Conflict:
1. From personal disagreement to meaning trouble spot--
2. Signs of trouble--
3. Different kinds of meaning question--
Part II. Making Sense of 'Meaning':
4. Meaning and the appeal to semantics--
5. Interpretive variation--
6. Time-based meaning--
Part III. Verbal Disputes and Approaches to Resolving Them:
7. Meaning as a knockout competition; 8. Standards of interpretation--
Part IV. Analyzing Disputes in Different Fields of Law and Regulation:
9. Defamation: 'reasonably capable of bearing the meaning attributed'--
10. Advertising: 'not only what is said, but what is reasonably implied'--
11. Offensiveness: 'if there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable'--
Part V. Conclusion:
12. Trust in interpretation--
References.
9780521136402
Mass media
Debates and debating
Mass media and language
Discourse analysis
302.23 / DUR/M