'Black lives matter' : cross-media resonance and the iconic turn of language / by Lucia Abbamonte.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Abbamonte, Lucia, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media and race relations--United States.

Mass media and race relations.

Black lives matter movement--United States.

Black lives matter movement.

African Americans--Social conditions--21st century.

African Americans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

This volume focuses on the ongoing protest in the US against racial discrimination and racial profiling, which often result in the loss of black lives at the hands of police agents, a phenomenon that has recently attracted unprecedented media attention. The topics dealt with here, such as the relevance of the 'Black Lives Matter' movement, are currently included in a variety of education curricula in the US, and, in like manner, this book can be used in first and second level degrees in linguistic and cultural studies, communication, media studies and political sciences. It contains well-developed methodological sections (with tables, figures, graphs and notes), where the tenets of critical discourse analysis are concisely illustrated from its Foucauldian roots up to the more recent developments of multimodal critical discourse analysis and positive discourse analysis, as well as the contribution of the Sidney School with their emphasis on mapping culture through narrative genres and the wealth of resources for discourse analysis provided by the appraisal framework.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

Foreword

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Final Considerations and the Agenda of Positive Discourse Analysis

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5275-2146-X

OCLC:

1066248002