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What's in a Text?: Answers from Frame Analysis and Rhetoric for Measuring Meaning Systems and Argumentative Structures
- Source :
- Rhetorica. 36:393-429
- Publication Year :
- 2018
- Publisher :
- Project MUSE, 2018.
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Abstract
- Starting in the 1970s, frame analysis became a popular technique of textual analysis in different disciplines (communication, mass media, sociology). There is no agreed-upon definition of frame analysis or of ways of measuring its key concepts. This paper explores the relationship between frame analysis and rhetoric. The paper reviews all main concepts developed in frame analysis. Concept after concept, it maps the correspondence between frame analysis and rhetorical concepts. It shows how frame analysis stopped short of developing what was really required to measure frames: tropes and figures. The analysis of a specific text confirms the power of rhetorical analysis for teasing out meaning systems and argumentative structures.
- Subjects :
- Linguistics and Language
Argumentative
050402 sociology
Frame analysis
business.industry
media_common.quotation_subject
05 social sciences
06 humanities and the arts
0603 philosophy, ethics and religion
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics
Key (music)
Power (social and political)
0504 sociology
060302 philosophy
Rhetoric
Rhetorical question
Sociology
business
Mass media
Meaning (linguistics)
media_common
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15338541 and 07348584
- Volume :
- 36
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Rhetorica
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....10dcf7faf39209251ad04aac64e96f8b