Intertext Series: The Language of Magazines

Title: The Language of Magazines
Level: A-Level and beginning undergraduate students
Author(s): Linda McLoughlin
Publisher: Routledge
Date: 2000
Pages: 160
Size: 9.41 Mb
Format: .html
Quality: High
Language: British English

This accessible satellite textbook in the Routledge INTERTEXT series is unique in offering students hands-on practical experience of textual analysis focused on magazines. Written in a clear, user-friendly style by an experienced teacher, it combines practical activities with texts, followed by commentaries and suggestions for further reading. It can be used individually or in conjunction with the series core textbook, Working with Texts: A core book for language analysis. [+/-]

Aimed at A-Level and beginning undergraduate students, 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 gender is constructed through language
• looks at how magazines relate to culture
• explores a wide variety of magazines, including Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Bliss, Diva, FHM, Sugar and Viz

About the author
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.

Download link:
http://www.fileserve.com/file/yhuUJBV