Publications

Publication details [#14484]

Ostermann, Ana Christina and Deborah Keller-Cohen. 1998. 'Good girls go to heaven, bad girls ...' learn to be good: quizzes in American and Brazilian teenage girls' magazines. Discourse & Society 9 (4) : 531–558.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

critical discourse analysis | media language | quiz | socialization

Language as a subject

English

Place, Publisher

SAGE Publications

ISBN

0957-9265

Journal WWW

www.sagepub.co.uk/ejournals/

Annotation

It is claimed that problem-solution structures masked in the ludic and informal shape of quizzes in teenage girls' magazines are geared towards the heterosexual socialization of teenage girls.