Semiotics and Verbal Texts : How the News Media Construct a Crisis

• Main Author: Gravells, Jane. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
• Subjects: Linguistics.; Communication.; Sociolinguistics.; Discourse analysis.; Semiotics.; elektronické knihy; electronic books
• ISBN: 9781137587503
• Physical Description: XVII, 272 p. 10 illus. online resource.

This book offers an innovative approach to analysing written texts, grounded in principles of semiotics. Envisaging whole news media representations as 'signs', and using the real-world example of the BP Deepwater Horizon crisis, the author demonstrates how business crises are constructed...