Semiotics and verbal texts : how the news media construct a crisis / Jane Gravells.
Gravells, Jane, author.
2017
P96.S43
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Title Semiotics and verbal texts : how the news media construct a crisis / Jane Gravells.
Author Gravells, Jane, author.
ISBN 9781137587503 (electronic book)
1137587504 (electronic book)
9781137587480 (paperback)
1137587482 (paperback)
DOI https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58750-3
Published London : Palgrave Macmillan, [2017]
Copyright ©2017.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvii, 272 pages) : illustrations
Item Number 10.1057/978-1-137-58750-3 doi
Call Number P96.S43
Dewey Decimal Classification 302.2/3/0141
Summary 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 through language. Gravells identifies patterns of language which show a progression from one kind of 'current news' representation to a different kind of coverage. This coverage positions the crisis as having symbolic and conventional meaning within varied social contexts, including the arts, business and the environment. Using a wealth of examples from the BP story to illustrate her practical research approach, Gravells draws 'language maps' of different phases of the crisis representation, showing how an early 'iconic' phase of representation moves through an 'indexical' to a 'symbolic' phase, and projects a return to a 'naturalised icon'.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-264) and index.
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Series Postdisciplinary studies in discourse.
Available in Other Form Semiotics and verbal texts.
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Researching the representation of a crisis
Semiotic discourse analysis
Theoretical foundations
Data collection and research principles
A Barthesian analysis of the BP data in four stages
Stage 1: contextualisation of the BP texts
Stage 2: preliminary analysis of the BP texts
Stage 3: a depth analysis at the level of the sign
Stage 3: a depth analysis at the level of the code
Stage 3: a depth analysis at the level of mythic meanings
Stage 3: a depth analysis at the level of ideology
Stage 4: a holistic analysis of a single text
Theoretical foundations
A peircean interpretation of the BP data
Other events, other contexts.

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