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Description: This book 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. The chapters examine issues of identity, gender, youth, citizenship, politics and ideology across a range of media, including television, radio, newspapers, magazines and the internet. The result is a multilingual survey of the construction of language in and by the media that will be essential reading for students and researchers of sociolinguistics or language and communication.
Contents: Introduction: Language in the Media: Theory and Practice • PART I Metaphors and Meanings: Metaphors for Speaking and Writing in the British Press • Journalistic Constructions of Blair’s ‘Apology’ for the Intelligence Leading to the Iraq War • Crises of Meaning: Personalist Language Ideology in US Media Discourse • PART II National Identities, Citizenship and Globalization: The Iconography of Orthography: Representing German Spelling Reform in the News Magazine, Der Spiegel • A Language Ideology in Print: the Case of Sweden • Global Challenges to Nationalist Ideologies: Language and Education in the Luxembourg Press • PART III Contact and Codeswitching in Multilingual Mediascapes: Corsican on the Airwaves: Media Discourse in a Context of Minority Language Shift. • ‘When Hector met Tom Cruise’: Attitudes to Irish in a Radio Satire • Dealing with Linguistic Difference in Encounters with Others on British Television • PART IV Youth, Gender and Cyber-Identities: Fabricating Youth: New-media Discourse and the Technologization of Young People • Dreaming of Genie: Gender Difference and Identity on the Web • Of Chords, Machines and Bumble-bees: The Metalinguistics of Hyperpoetry • Commentary: Language in the Media: Authenticity and Othering • IndexISBN - 9781846841576
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Pages : 326
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