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

• Main Author: Gravells, Jane (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic 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

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...