| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
978-0521136402 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Call number |
302.23 DU ME |
| MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Authors |
Durant, Alan. |
| TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Meaning in the media : |
| Subtitle |
discourse, controversy and debate / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
Alan Durant. |
| PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication |
Cambridge : |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press, |
| Date |
2010. |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xii, 254 p. ; |
| Size |
23 cm. |
| CONTENTS |
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| Contents |
Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Communication Failure and Interpretive Conflict: 1. From personal disagreement to meaning troublespot; 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. Analysing 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. |
| SUMMARY |
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| Summary |
Addresses the issue of what we should make of competing claims about meaning when debated in highly charged circumstances. |
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| Topical Heading |
Mass media. |
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Mass media and language. |
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Meaning (Psychology) |
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Signification (psychology). |
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| Topical Heading |
Discourse analysis. |
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| Topical Heading |
Debates and debating. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://uowd.box.com/s/02a1atjudigo87adbco1r0l77npmrf97 |
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