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Cognitive Approaches to Contemporary Media
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Cognitive Approaches to Contemporary Media

Edited By: Teodora Popescu

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Uncover the hidden power of metaphor in the media. This collection reveals how manipulative framing in news and film shapes reality and offers fresh insights to help you decode bias and avoid being misled. Essential for any critical thinker.

This collection represents a fresh perspective on metaphorical language used in the media nowadays and will inform and captivate both the general reader and the…
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This collection represents a fresh perspective on metaphorical language used in the media nowadays and will inform and captivate both the general reader and the specialist. It explores the fascinating facets of metaphor use in journals and films‚ and‚ given the mediatic tendencies of manipulative framings of reality, offers fresh insights into how figurative language works in the media nowadays may be useful in order to educate audiences and train their decoding abilities in order to avoid being misled and biased.

Its complexity and wide array of perspectives would make this book a must-read for anyone genuinely interested in achieving a broader picture of the field‚ from undergraduate students of English language and linguists to people working in the media.

Professor Teodora Popescu teaches English Semantics, Translation Studies and Intercultural Business Communication at 1 Decembrie 1918 University of Alba-Iulia, Romania. She is the author of English-Romanian Dictionary of Business Terminology (2017) and The Business English Language Curriculum (2017), and co-author of Dictionary of Business Collocations: With Romanian Translation and Practice Section (2009) and English-German-French-Italian-Romanian Pocket Dictionary of Business, Legal and Political Terms (2006). She also (co)-authored 90 book chapters and articles in the field of ELT methodology, curriculum studies, CALL, lexical semantics, and intercultural business communication. She is also editor-in-chief of The Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education – JoLIE.

Adina Botaș, Andra Georgiana Corpade, Bianca Moisi, Adela Natalia Paven, Oana-Elena Stoica, Gabriela Corina Santa, Diana-Emanuela Tîrnăvean, Andra-Iulia Ursa, Crina Herţeg

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  • ISBN: 1-5275-6953-5
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-6953-9
  • Date of Publication: 2021-07-29

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-3159-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-3159-4
  • Date of Publication: 2024-12-13

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  • ISBN: 1-5275-7298-6
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-7298-0
  • Date of Publication: 2024-12-13
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