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COMM252 - Cultural Discourses of Advertising/Seminar

Focuses on the ways in which discourse elements in advertising draw upon, circulate, and create new cultural codes. Patterns and codes of "discourse imaging" that structure ads are explored in the context of verbal and visual properties, intertextualities, and ideology. Through the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis, emphasis is given to the relationship of advertising discourse to larger cultural discourses and their consequences. For undergraduate English majors, this course satisfies the Theory or Criticism (D) requirement. Prerequisite: COMM101. Ms. Johnson/Offered every year


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Fern Johnson, Ph.D. - Professor of English


The course is also known by the following crosslisted code(s): ENG252

 

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