Discourses of Disorder

Christopher Hart

ISBN 10: 1474435416 / ISBN 13: 9781474435413

Published by Edinburgh University Press, GB, 2018

About this Item

Riots, strikes and protests are heavily mediatised events. Media representations thus play a crucial role in narrating instances of civil disorder for the public where they define the issues at stake, delimit frames of reference and debate, and ultimately legitimise or delegitimise the actors, actions and causes involved. From a critical semiotic perspective, drawing on insights from linguistics, multimodality and media studies, this book explores the ideological dimensions of media representation and its function in discursively constructing public understandings of, and attitudes toward, civil disorder. A range of case studies are presented which cut across time, communicative modality and genre, and geo-political context.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Discourses of Disorder
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, GB
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1474435416
• ISBN 13: 9781474435413
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 474 grams

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Synopsis

Riots, strikes and protests are heavily mediatised events. Media representations thus play a crucial role in narrating instances of civil disorder for the public where they define the issues at stake, delimit frames of reference and debate, and ultimately legitimise or delegitimise the actors, actions and causes involved. From a critical semiotic perspective, drawing on insights from linguistics, multimodality and media studies, this book explores the ideological dimensions of media representation and its function in discursively constructing public understandings of, and attitudes toward, civil disorder. A range of case studies are presented which cut across time, communicative modality and genre, and geo-political context.

About the Authors

Christopher Hart is Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at Lancaster University.

Darren Kelsey is Senior Lecturer and Head of Media, Culture, Heritage in the School of Arts and Cultures at Newcastle University