Meaning in the media : discourse, controversy and debate /
By: Durant, Alan
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BookPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.Description: xii, 254 p. ; 23 cm.ISBN: 978-0521136402Subject(s): Mass media | Mass media and language | Meaning (Psychology) | Signification (psychology) | Discourse analysis | Debates and debatingDDC classification: 302.23 DU ME Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| 302.23 DE ME Media and global civil society / | 302.23 DE WE De-Westernizing media studies | 302.23 DO DY Dynamics of mass communication : | 302.23 DU ME Meaning in the media : | 302.23 ED ME Media, markets, and morals / | 302.23 FA PU Public communication: | 302.23 FO ME The Media in your life : |
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.
Addresses the issue of what we should make of competing claims about meaning when debated in highly charged circumstances.