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Title Handbook of communication in the public sphere / edited by Ruth Wodak and Veronika Koller
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, ©2008
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Description 1 online resource (xx, 462 pages) : illustrations
Series Handbooks of applied linguistics ; v. 4
Handbooks of applied linguistics ; v. 4.
Contents Frontmatter; Contents; Introduction: Shifting boundaries and emergent public spheres; 1. Language, communication and the public sphere: Definitions; 2. Public space, common goods, and private interests: Emergent definitions in globally mediated humanity; 3. Media discourse and the naturalisation of categories; 4. Language, communication and the public sphere: A perspective from feminist critical discourse analysis; 5. Advertisements and Public Relations; 6. Language and communication design in the marketplace; 7. Identity, image, impression: Corporate self-promotion and public reactions
Summary As you are reading this, you are finding yourself in the ubiquitous public sphere that is the Web. Ubiquitous, and yet not universally accessible. This volume addresses this dilemma of the public sphere, which is by definition open to everyone but in practice often excludes particular groups of people in particular societies at particular points in time. The guiding questions for this collection of articles are therefore: Who has access to the public sphere? How is this access enabled or disabled? Under what conditions is it granted or withheld, and by whom? We regard the public sphere as the
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Communication.
Language and languages.
Critical discourse analysis.
languages (study discipline)
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
Communication
Critical discourse analysis
Language and languages
Taal.
Communicatie.
Openbaar leven.
Form Electronic book
Author Wodak, Ruth, 1950-
Koller, Veronika, 1973-
ISBN 9783110198980
3110198983
9786612194641
6612194642