Vocabularies of public life : empirical essays in symbolic structure / / edited by Robert Wuthnow

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 302.2
• Soggetto topico: Communication - Social aspects; Symbolism in communication; Discourse analysis
• Altri autori: WuthnowRobert
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors page; Introduction: New directions in the empirical study of cultural codes; The restriction of meaning in religious discourse: centripetal devices in a fundamentalist Christian sermon; The gospel of giving: the narrative construction of a sacrificial economy; When scientists saw ghosts and why they stopped: American spiritualism in history; Reading science as text; Paradox in the discourse of science; Putting it together: measuring the syntax of aural and visual symbols ; The musical structure and social context of number one songs, 1955 to 1988: an exploratory analysisA theory of pictorial discourse; Decoding the syntax of modern dance; Metaphors of industrial rationality: the social construction of electronics policy in the United States and France; The parameters of possible constitutional interpretation; The role of elites in setting agendas for public debate: a historical case; Materialism, ideology, and political change
• Sommario/riassunto: Examines the symbolic structure of such important contemporary manifestations of culture as religious discourse, scientific texts, popular music, symbols, art, dance, law and public policy
• Titolo autorizzato: Vocabularies of public life
• ISBN: 1-134-90247-6; 1-134-90248-4; 1-280-32327-2; 0-203-22204-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910780388203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II