The Cultural Analysis of Texts

by Mikko Lehtonen

Overview

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 formation 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780761965503
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	09/05/2000
Pages:	184
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.30(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of 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