Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies

by Sally Johnson (Editor), Astrid Ensslin (Editor), Tommaso M. Milani (Editor)

Overview

This book not only examines the ways in which the media represents language-related issues, but also how the media's use of language is central to the construction of what people think language is, could or ought to be like.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826495488
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/19/2007
Series:	Advances in Sociolinguistics
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Sally Johnson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University of Leeds, UK. Astrid Ensslin is a Lecturer in New Media at the University of Wales Bangor.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     vii
Notes on contributors     viii
Introduction
Language in the media: theory and practice   Sally Johnson   Astrid Ensslin     3
Metaphors and Meanings
Metaphors for speaking and writing in the British press   John Heywood   Elena Semino     25
Journalistic constructions of Blair's 'apology' for the intelligence leading to the Iraq war   Lesley Jeffries     48
Crises of meaning: personalist language ideology in US media discourse   Jane H. Hill     70
National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization
The iconography of orthography: representing German spelling reform in the news magazine Der Spiegel   Sally Johnson     91
A language ideology in print: the case of Sweden   Tommaso M. Milani     111
Global challenges to nationalist ideologies: language and education in the Luxembourg press   Kristine Horner     130
Contact and Codeswitching in Multilingual Mediascapes
Corsican on the airwaves: media discourse in a context of minority language shift   Alexandra Jaffe     149
'When Hector met Tom Cruise': attitudes to Irish in a radio satire   Helen Kelly-Holmes   David Atkinson     173
Dealing with linguistic difference in encounters with Others on British television   Simon Gieve   Julie Norton     188
Youth, Gender and Cyber-Identities
Fabricating youth: new-media discourse and the technologization of young people   Crispin Thurlow     213
Dreaming of Genie: language, gender difference and identity on the web   Deborah Cameron     234
Of chords, machines and bumble-bees: the metalinguistics of hyperpoetry   Astrid Ensslin     250
Commentary
Language in the media: authenticity and othering   Adam Jaworski     271
References     281
Index     304

Editorial Reviews

"The book Language in the Media...exhibits several underlying linking qualities that give the book a desirable level of coherence, which is also enhanced formally by the fact that there is only one bibliographical section at the end of the book. The book is not the typical book on language and the media...it focuses on very specific and ideology-connoted aspects of the relationship of language and media, but at the same time it will no doubt draw the attention of readers from a wide range of research perspectives, including pragmatics, (critical) discourse analysis, ethnological approaches, etc...the book is invaluable and no doubt offers interesting insights in a field on which so much has been published already." - Francisco Yus, The Linguist List, November 3, 2008--Sanford Lakoff "Linguist List "

"This is not just another book on media language. In a sophisticated, original and sharply critical way, it shows us how the media lens gives language distinctive forms and values. Sociolinguistics comes of age when it analyses the mediation of language - a truly contemporary phenomenon. That is what this book achieves, comprehensively and brilliantly." - Professor Nikolas Coupland, Centre for Language and Communication Research, Cardiff University, UK--Sanford Lakoff

."..consistently reflects its authors' ability to meld fresh empirical study to thought-provoking analytical and theoretical insight "vis-a-vis "the intersections between media representations of language issues and larger societal understandings of these issues...Adam Jaworski concludes the volume with a reflective chapter (Chapter 14) entitled 'Language in the media: Authenticity and othering'. Jaworski notes the ways in which many of the volume's chapters display a growing self-reflexivity among researchers of language. Given the clear critical orientation of most of the volume's authors, the seems an apt observation with which to conclude Language in the Media." Journal of Sociolinguistics 13/4. 2009

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