Offers students a hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on magazines. It combines practical activities with texts, followed by commentaries and suggestions for further reading.
Offers students a hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on magazines. It combines practical activities with texts, followed by commentaries and suggestions for further reading.
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.
Inhaltsangabe
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
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
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