TY  - BOOK
AU  - Durant, Alan
TI  - Meaning in the media: discourse, controversy and debate
SN  - 9780521136402
U1  - 302.23 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mass media
KW  - Debates and debating
KW  - Mass media and language
KW  - Discourse analysis
N1  - 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
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