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 h
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Semiotics and Verbal Texts How the News Media Construct a Crisis Jane Gravells
Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse
Series Editors Johannes Angermuller University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom Judith Baxter Halsecombe House Minehead, United Kingdom
Aim of the series Postdisciplinary Studies in Discourse engages in the exchange between discourse theory and analysis while putting emphasis on the intellectual challenges in discourse research. Moving beyond disciplinary divisions in today's social sciences, the contributions deal with critical issues at the intersections between language and society. More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/14534
Jane Gravells
Semiotics and Verbal Texts How the News Media Construct a Crisis
Jane Gravells Aston University Birmingham, United Kingdom
ISBN 978-1-137-58748-0 ISBN 978-1-137-58750-3 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/978-1-137-58750-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2016959556 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017 The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Cover image © PM Images / Getty Cover design by Oscar Spigolon Printed on acid-free paper This Palgrave Macmillan imprint is published by Springer Nature The registered company is Macmillan Publishers Ltd. London The registered company address is The Campus, 4 Crinan Street, London, N1 9XW, United Kingdom
To Molly Schroder
Foreword
I undertook the research for this book to satisfy an interest in the ways in which language and business interconnect, and in particular to consider the language surrounding companies in crisis. Many books have been written from a business perspective on crisis communication, but my concern was about how the “lay” person came to understand crisis events. It seemed to me that major news events such as disasters and
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