Full Description
Drawing upon a range of perspectives from textual and cultural studies, this book synthesizes textual, contextual and audience analysis into an overall picture of meaning making. Using examples ranging from Balzac to blonde jokes, modernist poetry to pop lyrics, the book discusses the factors that contribute to the fomation of meaning: language, media, texts, contexts and readers.
In the cultural study of texts - texts, contexts and practices - are equally important, the author argues. Meaning making takes place in the articulation between these different elements. But how can one examine all three areas at the same time? In The Cultural Analysis of Texts, Mikko Lehtonen develops a model to enable just such an approach.
Contents
Stop the World, I Want In!
The Meaningfulness of the World, the Worldliness of Meanings
Language as the Being of Humans in the World
The World of Sign Systems and Technologies
The World of Texts
The World of Contexts
The World of Readers
The World of Articulations
