Australian Animals by Caroline Arnold

Australian Animals by Caroline Arnold

For many people, newspapers are a key source of information on many topics, including issues related to gender and sexuality. Applying a broad range of corpus linguistic methods, Transgender Identities in the Press critically explores the linguistic cues and patterns used by the print media in their representation of trans people.

Through close analysis of a corpus of articles collected from English-language newspapers from the UK and Canada, Angela Zottola focuses on the semantic categories of representation associated with transgender identities. Exploring a set of key terms, this book examines the semantic prosody and the language choices that each term is invested with, using Critical Discourse Analysis to investigate how the way the press represents this topic influences readers and their understanding of the major debates.

Using a mixture of quantitative and qualitative methods, Transgender Identities in the Press casts light on the complex picture of press language during a period of social change and increasing awareness. Highlighting both efforts to represent this community in an inclusive and non-discriminatory way and areas where there is need for improvement, this book illustrates a variety of issues from a critical and social perspective.

Caroline Arnold is the author of more than one hundred books for children, most of them about science and nature. Books by Caroline Arnold include, Too Hot? Too Cold? Keeping Body Temperature Just Right, Shockers of the Sea, African Animals (Morrow Junior Books), and Dinosaur Mountain (Clarion Books), which was named an ALA Notable Book.

In addition to writing, Caroline spends much of her time reading, gardening, and traveling. She visits many elementary schools telling children about her books and encouraging them to read and write. Caroline also teaches part-time in the Writers' Program at UCLA Extension School.

Caroline lives in Los Angeles, California.

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ISBN 13	9780688167660
ISBN 10	0688167667
Title	Australian Animals
Author	Caroline Arnold
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2000-08-08
Number of pages	48
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