Publications
Publication details [#11743]
Bing, Janet Mueller and Lucien X. Lombardo. 1997. Talking Past Each Other about Sexual Harassment: An Exploration of Frames for Understanding. Discourse & Society 8 (3) : 293–311. 19 pp. 
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
ISBN
0957-9265
Journal WWW
Annotation
Four frames surrounding the topic of sexual harassment in news media are discerned: a judicial, a victim, an initiator and a social frame. When reader and writer differ in terms of media frame, cognitive dissonance of the reader may result in rejection of the writer's arguments.