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Semiotics and Verbal Texts: How the News Media Construct a Crisis
Jane Gravells
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Description for Semiotics and Verbal Texts: How the News Media Construct a Crisis
Hardback. Series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse. Num Pages: 272 pages, 10 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: CFGR; GTC; GTE; JFD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 219 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.
This book offers an innovative approach to analysing written texts, grounded in principles of semiotics. Envisaging whole news media representations as `signs', and using the real-world example of the BP Deepwater Horizon crisis, the author demonstrates how business crises are constructed through language. Gravells identifies patterns of language which show a progression from one kind of `current news' representation to a different kind of coverage. This coverage positions the crisis as having symbolic and conventional meaning within varied social contexts, including the arts, business and the environment. Using a wealth of examples from the BP story to illustrate her ... Read more
This book offers an innovative approach to analysing written texts, grounded in principles of semiotics. Envisaging whole news media representations as `signs', and using the real-world example of the BP Deepwater Horizon crisis, the author demonstrates how business crises are constructed through language. Gravells identifies patterns of language which show a progression from one kind of `current news' representation to a different kind of coverage. This coverage positions the crisis as having symbolic and conventional meaning within varied social contexts, including the arts, business and the environment. Using a wealth of examples from the BP story to illustrate her ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
Series
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137587480
SKU
V9781137587480
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About Jane Gravells
Jane Gravells is a lecturer in Linguistics at Aston University. Her research interests have been in those areas where language and business intersect. Her work in semiotics relates to the role of written language in multimodal texts. Jane has taught applied linguistics and business studies at several leading universities. Before this, she had a successful career in qualitative ... Read more
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