Bøker av Andrea Mayr

Offers students with an overview of the field of institutional discourse, introducing the key theorists including Foucault, Habermas, Weber, Giddens, Althusser and Gramsci, among others. This book covers a range of institutional contexts including the workplace, the media, prison, courtroom and academia.

Written for students without prior knowledge of linguistics, this is an accessible and systematic toolkit for doing language and image analysis. Using case studies and examples from a range of media, it enables students to analyze and understand the relationship between language, discourse and social practices.

Looks at the study of crime and deviance through written, spoken and visual representation. This book deals specifically with the role of language in representations and constructions of crime, deviance and punishment in the media. It provides a toolkit for the analysis of language and images in examples across a range of media.