Language in the Media: Representations, Identities, Ideologies

by Sally Johnson (Editor), Astrid Ensslin (Editor)

Overview

Examining the ways in which the media represents language-related issues and how it shapes and constructs what people think language is, this book offers a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and by the media.

Tackling the big issues of identity, gender, youth, citizenship, politics and ideology across a range of mediums including television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the internet, Language in the Media brings together an international team of experts to examine how the media gives language distinctive forms and values. This is an essential text for students and researchers of sociolinguistics or language and communication. At a time when trust in the mainstream media is at an all-time low and world leaders are using new media to deride so called 'fake news', this classic text offers insight and critical analysis into the key issues surrounding the relationship between language, the media and its audience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781350063365
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/18/2018
Series:	Bloomsbury Classics in Linguistics
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	408
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

Sally Johnson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University of Leeds, UK.

Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Media and Digital Communication at the University of Alberta, Canada.
Sally Johnson is Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at University of Leeds, UK.
Astrid Ensslin is Professor of Dynamics of Virtual Communication Spaces at University of Regensburg, Germany.

Table of Contents

Foreword, Sally Johnson and Astrid Ensslin
1. Language in the Media: Theory and Practice, Sally Johnson (University of Leeds, UK) and Astrid Ensslin (University of Alberta, Canada)
Part I: Metaphors and Meanings
2. Metaphors for Speaking and Writing in the British Press, John Heywood and Elena Semino (Lancaster University, UK)
3. Journalistic Constructions of Blair's 'Apology' for the Intelligence Leading to the Iraq War, Lesley Jeffries (University of Huddersfield, UK)
4. Crises of Meaning: Personalist Language Ideology in US Media Discourse, Jane Hill (University of Arizona, USA)
Part II: National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization
5. National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization, Sally Johnson (University of Leeds, UK)
6. A Language Ideology in Print: the Case of Sweden, Tommaso M. Milani (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
7. Global Challenges to Nationalist Ideologies: Language and Education in the Luxembourg Press, Kristine Horner (University of Sheffield, UK)
Part III: Contact and Codeswitching in Multilingual Mediascapes
8. Corsican on the Airwaves: Media Discourse in a Context of Minority Language Shift, Alexandra Jaffe (California State University, Long Beach, USA)
9. 'When Hector met Tom Cruise': Attitudes to Irish in a Radio Satire, Helen Kelly-Holmes and David Atkinson (University of Limerick, Ireland)
10. Dealing with Linguistic Difference in Encounters with Others on British Television, Simon Gieve and Julie Norton (University of Leicester, UK)
Part IV: Youth, Gender and Cyber-Identities
11. Fabricating Youth: New-media Discourse and the Technologization of Young People, Crispin Thurlow (University of Bern, Switzerland)
12. Dreaming of Genie: Gender Difference and Identity on the Web, Deborah Cameron (Oxford University, UK)
13. Of Chords, Machines and Bumble-bees: The Metalinguistics of Hyperpoetry, Astrid Ensslin (University of Alberta, Canada)
14. Language in the Media: Authenticity and Othering, Adam Jaworski (Cardiff University, UK)
Index

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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