Communication Studies
Published on 19. May 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-1-4039-3998-2 (ISBN)
Description
This book is innovative and diverse in bringing together the main sub-topics of communication studies - text analysis, business communication, mass communication, the media industry and film. Drawing from popular culture examples, the book explains the concepts that guide the study of communication in all its forms.
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Series
Edition
2006
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
224 p.
Dimensions
Height: 23.4 cm
Width: 15.6 cm
Weight
355 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4039-3998-2 (9781403939982)
DOI
10.1057/9780230209169
Schweitzer Classification
Person
SKY MARSEN is Lecturer in Linguistics and Applied Language Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She is author of Professional Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2002) and has designed and taught courses in communications and writing in Australia, New Zealand and the USA. She has also worked as a trade journalist and as technical writing project manager at IBM.
Content
Preface.- Acknowledgements.- Introducing Communication.- Methods and Models of Communication Studies.- Language and Rhetoric.- Semiotics and Narrative.- Professional Communication.- Audience Analysis and Mass Communication.- Film.- The Mass Media.- Bibliography.- Index.