Bourdieu, language and the media

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Author:

Myles, John, 1953-

ISBN:

9780230222090

Personal Author:

Myles, John, 1953-

Publication Information:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Physical Description:

x, 170 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Contents:

Theoretical issues in studying language and the media. Bourdieu-language-media ; Bourdieu, language and media studies ; Interrogating Bourdieu on language : critical discourse analysis, postmodernism and ethnomethodology -- Case studies. Journalism, language and the city ; The body in the press : social codes in urban photojournalism ; Voice, radio, field ; Language, media and opinion polling ; Bourdieu and language technologies : texting-mobility-habitus.

Abstract:

"This book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies. Using case studies of radio, internet, text messaging and photojournalism, it deploys Bourdieu's ideas to reveal how language in the media is implicated in broader social patterns of "symbolic violence." -- Provided by publisher.

Personal Subject:

Bourdieu, Pierre, 1930-2002.

Subject Term:

Mass media and language.

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This book engages with key theoretical and analytical issues in the field of media, communication and cultural studies. Using case studies of radio, internet, text messaging and photojournalism, it deploys Bourdieu's ideas to reveal how language in the media is implicated in broader social patterns of 'symbolic violence'.