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Titolo: | 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 | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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: | 1-134-90248-4 |
1-280-32327-2 | |
0-203-22204-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910456041703321 |
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