Applied Discourse Analysis: Popular Culture, Media, and Everyday Life

By Arthur Asa Berger

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319471805
• ISBN13: 9783319471808
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.8" x 8.3"