The Language of Magazines

1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-415-21424-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 128 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 240 g

Reihe: Intertext

The Language of Magazines:

*shows how linguistic techniques such as puns and presuppositions are used by magazines to capture our attention
*examines how image and text combine to produce meaning
*discusses how ideological messages are conveyed
*analyses how the sexes are constructed through language
*looks at how magazines relate to culture

*explores a wide variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Mens Health, Bliss, Diva, FHM, Sugar and Viz.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mcloughlin, Linda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Medien-, Informations und Kommunikationswirtschaft Verlagswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Unit one: What is a magazine? What is a magazine? What types of magazines are there? Who produces magazines? Unit two: The wrapping: front covers; Ideal-reader images; What’s in a name?: magazine titles; Visual images; Layout and graphology; The front cover as preview; Putting words together; Creating variety: sentence types; Sentence functions; Problems and solutions; Tricks of language; Unit three: Leafing through: the composition of the text; Front of house: the contents page; The composition of pages; Unit four: In-house: magazine contents; Horoscopes; Readers’ letters; The problem page; Magazine narratives: readers’ true stories; Dialogue within the text; Unit five: Who am I?: the relationship between the text producer and interpreter; Constructing subject positions; The ideal-reader; The identity of the text producer; The relationship between the text producer and reader; The editorial; Resisting subject positions; Unit six: The discourse of magazines; Discourse; Linguistic determinism: ideological Viewpoints; Text; Tracing patterns in language; Lexical cohesion; Grammatical cohesion; The discourse of magazines; Patterns of word choices; Unit seven: Representations of women and men: constructing femininity, masculinity and sexuality; Femininities and masculinities; Constructing femininities and masculinities: the advertorial; Constructing sexuality

Über Autor(innen)

Linda McLoughlin is a part-time lecturer in English language at Edge Hill College, Ormskirk, Lancashire. She has designed and taught BA and MA courses in English language, specialising in language and gender.