Media Discourse

Description

This work applies Norman Fairclough's "critical discourse analysis" framework which he developed in "Language and Power" and "Discourse and Social Life". Drawing on examples from television, radio and the press, the book focuses on changing practices of media discourse in relation to wider processes of social and cultural change. In particular, it explores the tensions between public and private in the media and the tensions between information and entertainment. The text is aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students of media, discourse analysis and sociolinguistics.

Norman Fairclough is a professor at the University of Lancaster.

offers a new contemporary approach to media language which connects both with the key issues in modern social theory and with poststructuralist interest in intertextuality and genre mixing. It will be highly useful for media studies courses and adds a dimension to existing issues and theories in textual analysis. Theo van Leeuwen, School of Media, London College This book offers insights into media, media discourse and their interface with wider social processes that you will not find in other writers Fairclough produces a unique range of insights into media discourse. The field would be much the poorer without his work. Journal of Sociolinguistics