Communication Criticism: Rhetoric, Social Codes, Cultural StudiesWaveland Press, 2001 - 322 pagine This introduction to criticism teaches students critical skills, whether examining television, fiction, nonfiction, visual arts, or oral and written discourse. Three introductory chapters provide a foundation to explore nine approaches to critical study. The perspectives presented bridge disciplinary boundaries and include: asking questions about how audiences process communication, understanding human symbol systems and social relations as vehicles for comprehending the world, value and narrative analysis, and psychoanalytic and ideological criticism. The discussions of using each approach contain questions critics are most likely to ask, assumptions governing the approach, an exploration of sample analyses that reveal vocabulary most frequently used, and a review of the problems encountered by critics. |
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... matter of great individuals calmly deliberating matters of timely and yet timeless importance , and then voting to see whose ideas were the more powerful . Democracy depended on eloquent , rational speech ( see Gronbeck , " Electric ...
... matter of great individuals calmly deliberating matters of timely and yet timeless importance , and then voting to see whose ideas were the more powerful . Democracy depended on eloquent , rational speech ( see Gronbeck , " Electric ...
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... matter is potentially worthy of formal analysis . What differentiates worthy from unworthy texts is not the subject matter but the theme developed in the text . Theme is the recurring , unifying idea , motif , or value of the message ...
... matter is potentially worthy of formal analysis . What differentiates worthy from unworthy texts is not the subject matter but the theme developed in the text . Theme is the recurring , unifying idea , motif , or value of the message ...
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... matter of enacting social expectations competently ( or not ) . Acting like a doctor or librarian or Gypsy fortune - teller - or president of the United States - is a matter of talking and behaving in accordance with cultural standards ...
... matter of enacting social expectations competently ( or not ) . Acting like a doctor or librarian or Gypsy fortune - teller - or president of the United States - is a matter of talking and behaving in accordance with cultural standards ...
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Communication Criticism Today | 3 |
The CriticalCultural View of Criticism | 16 |
Analyzing Texts | 23 |
Copyright | |
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