Semiotics of happiness
Subtitle: rhetorical beginnings of a public problem
By: Ashley Frawley
Series: Advances in Semiotics
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2015
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781472523716; 9781472524201; 9781472523303
Subjects: Semiotics; Social aspects; Rhetoric; Sociolinguistics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-219) and index.
Table of contents: title: The 'problem' of happiness; title: 2. A hospitable context for claims-making; title: 3. The rhetoric of social problems; title: 4. Claims-makers and the news; title: 5. Happiness: from prehistory to paradox; title: 6. The problem of lies within; title: 7. Owning happiness; title: 8. Happiness expertise; title: 9. The rhetoric of happiness: the inventory of a problem.