Media Discourse (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780340588895)

The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. Norman Fairclough applies to media language his "critical discourse analysis" framework which he developed in Language and Power and Discourse and Social Life. Drawing on examples from TV, radio, and the press, he focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes of social and cultural change. In particular he explores the tensions between public and private in the media and the tensions between information and entertainment.

Author: Norman Fairclough
ISBN-10: 0340588896
ISBN-13: 9780340588895
Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
Language: English
Published: 08/17/1995
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.76lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.14w x 0.65d

About the Author

Norman Fairclough is a professor at the University of Lancaster.