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Meaning in the media: discourse, controversy and debate/ Alan Durant

By: Durant, AlanMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010Description: xii, 254 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9780521136402Subject(s): Mass media | Debates and debating | Mass media and language | Discourse analysisDDC classification: 302.23

Contents:

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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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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