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Anarchist Site
Author_Stuart Price
authoritarian language
Brigham Young University
broadcasts
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Commercial Address
Commercial Messages
Contemporary Society
corporate
Corporate Address
Corporate Citizenship
critical
critical discourse analysis
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Discursive Practice
election
Election Broadcast
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Follow
Grammatical Integrity
Issue Proponents
Labour Leader
language power dynamics in media
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media ideology
Middle Aged White Male
Party Political Broadcast
PEB
persuasive communication
Post-war
PPB
public relations theory
Speaker's Participation
Speaker’s Participation
strategic messaging
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UK Reputation
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Van Dijk
Violated
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Product details
- ISBN 9780754648185
- Weight: 650g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Dec 2006
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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'Discourse Power Address' identifies the existence of 'directive' address, a form of strategic communication which is employed in a number of dominant practices, including Advertising, Politics, Public Relations and Corporate representation. Stuart Price argues that the simulation of intimacy in authoritarian address masks a drive to power, in which the creation of propositions by powerful social actors is based on the 'timeliness' of utterance rather than any real adherence to truth or genuine explanation. Election broadcasts, political speeches, TV commercials and corporate advertisements are all scrutinised in order to evaluate competing perspectives on the creation and circulation of meaning; particular reference is made to theories of discourse, ideology and address. In the course of his argument, the author proposes an original method for determining how authoritarian address attempts to make an impact on audiences. Providing a cross-disciplinary contribution to the fields of Communication, Language, Media and Political Studies, this book provides an original, clear-sighted contribution to the debate on language and power, and will provide an essential resource for lecturers, researchers, students, activists and policy-makers.
Stuart Price is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Production, and Research Associate in the International Cultural Planning and Policy Unit, at De Montfort University, UK. He produced the first mass-market media studies book for the higher education sector and went on to write a series of books on communication and media. His current research includes work on rhetoric and the 'war on terror' and studies of gendered identity and film.
