Semiotics and Verbal Texts : How the News Media Construct a Crisis
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...
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| Format | Electronic eBook |
| Language | English |
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London :
Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2017.
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| Series | Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
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| Online Access | Full text |
| ISBN | 9781137587503 |
| DOI | 10.1057/978-1-137-58750-3 |
| Physical Description | XVII, 272 p. 10 illus. online resource. |
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Table of Contents:
- -- PART I: Written language and semiotics
- Chapter 1: Researching the representation of a crisis
- Chapter 2: Semiotic Discourse Analysis
- PART II: A Barthesian conceptualisation of written language
- Chapter 3: Theoretical foundations
- Chapter 4: Data collection and research principles
- Chapter 5: A Barthesian analysis of the BP data in four stages
- Chapter 6: Stage 1: Contextualisation of the BP texts
- Chapter 7: Stage 2: Preliminary analysis of the BP texts
- Chapter 8: Stage 3: A depth analysis at the level of the sign
- Chapter 9: Stage 3: A depth analysis at the level of the code
- Chapter 10: Stage 3: A depth analysis at the level of mythic meanings
- Chapter 11: Stage 3: A depth analysis at the level of ideology
- Chapter 12: Stage 4: A holistic analysis of a single text
- PART III: A Peircean conceptualisation of written language
- Chapter 13: Theoretical foundations
- Chapter 14: A Peircean interpretation of the BP data
- PART IV: Concluding thoughts
- Chapter 15: Other events, other contexts.