Applied Discourse Analysis

Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday Life

• Author(s): Arthur Asa Berger,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 201
• ISBN_10: 3319471813
  ISBN_13: 9783319471815
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Media Studies , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Pragmatics , Social Science / General , Social Science / Popular Culture , Performing Arts / Film / General , Language Arts & Disciplines / Communication Studies , Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social , Performing Arts / General ,

Description:... This book, written in an accessible style and illustrated with drawings by the author and with many other images, discusses the basic principles of discourse theory and applies them to various aspects of popular culture, media and everyday life. Among the topics it analyzes are speed dating, advertising, jokes, language use, myths, fairy tales and material culture.