Framing and interpretation

Abstract

What do we mean when we describe something as being framed by something else? In the humanities and social sciences, the metaphor of is commonly used by those who study socio-cultural texts, and appears to have developed independently in various disciplines such as linguistics, cultural studies, anthropology, psychology, literary criticism, artificial intelligence, aesthetics and the sociology of education. Framing and Interpretation provides a cross-disciplinary exposition and systematic analysis of framing theory and its various technical applications. It traces the historical emergence of this cluster of methodologies, and describes with admirable clarity the various ways in which acts of interpretation may be regarded as acts of framing. The aim of this book is to make some fairly complex ideas not only accessible but also useable. Consequently, it is especially helpful in giving examples of how framing and reframing can be used strategically in the reading of literary and social texts.

Cite this work

No public copy is stored for this record, so only the metadata is cited.

Stored only when both papers are in the corpus — 182 citations exist upstream.