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.
Communication failure and interpretive conflict. From personal disagreement to meaning troublespot ; Signs of trouble ; Different kinds of meaning question -- Making sense of ’meaning’. Meaning and the appeal to semantics ; Interpretive variation ; Time-based meaning -- Verbal disputes and approaches to resolving them. Meaning as a knockout competition ; Standards of interpretation -- Analysing disputes in different fields of law and regulation. Defamation : ’reasonably capable of bearing the meaning attributed’ ; Advertising : ’not only what is said, but what is reasonably implied’ ; Offensiveness : ’if there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable’ -- Conclusion. Trust in interpretation
9780521136402 9780521199582
Mass media
Meaning (Psychology)
Debates and debating
302.23 / D951M
Meaning in the media : discourse, controversy and debate / Alan Durant - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010 - xii, 254 p. ; 23 cm.
Communication failure and interpretive conflict. From personal disagreement to meaning troublespot ; Signs of trouble ; Different kinds of meaning question -- Making sense of ’meaning’. Meaning and the appeal to semantics ; Interpretive variation ; Time-based meaning -- Verbal disputes and approaches to resolving them. Meaning as a knockout competition ; Standards of interpretation -- Analysing disputes in different fields of law and regulation. Defamation : ’reasonably capable of bearing the meaning attributed’ ; Advertising : ’not only what is said, but what is reasonably implied’ ; Offensiveness : ’if there is a meaning, it is doubtless objectionable’ -- Conclusion. Trust in interpretation
9780521136402 9780521199582
Mass media
Meaning (Psychology)
Debates and debating
302.23 / D951M
