Media Discourse (Hodder Arnold Publication) - Softcover

Fairclough, Norman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340588896 ISBN 13: 9780340588895

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 1995

Synopsis

The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. In Media Discourse, Norman Fairclough applies the "critical discourse analysis" framework he developed in Language and Power and Discourse and Social Life to media language. Drawing on examples from TV, radio, and newspapers, he focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes of social and cultural change, particularly the tensions between public and private in the media and the tensions between information and entertainment.

About this title

About the Author:

Norman Fairclough is a professor at the University of Lancaster.

Review:

“This book offers a new contemporary approach to media language which connects both with the key issues in modern social theory and with poststructuralist interest in intertextuality and genre mixing. It will be highly useful for media studies courses and adds a dimension to existing issues and theories in textual analysis.” ―Theo van Leeuwen, London College of Printing and Distributive Trades

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0340588896
• ISBN 13: 9780340588895
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224