Media Discourse

by Norman Fairclough

Book Overview

The study of media language is increasingly important both for media studies and for discourse analysis and sociolinguistics. In Media Discourse, Norman Fairclough applies the "critical discourse analysis" framework he developed in Language and Power and Discourse and Social Life to media language. Drawing on examples from TV, radio, and newspapers, he focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0340588896
• ISBN13: 9780340588895
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"